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Prayer’s End
Nature remains
faithful by
natural light,
only. Immeasurable,
invisible in the wind.
Visible when
blades
and branches bend.
The wind
speaks fluent
rain. Despite it
the rain
falls straight. And beyond it
abandoned barns
defend
abandoned
men.
Source: Poetry (November 2010).
Biography
Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the author of numerous chapbooks, including The Milk for Free (2008), Longing/Belonging (2009), Laked, Fielded, Blanked (2011), and Salt Ballads (2012, and the full-length collection Siphon, Harbor (2012). Copeland’s work, in which she often layers images, sound, and narrative in short, fragmented lines, has drawn comparisons to that of Lorine Niedecker, William Carlos . . .
Poem Categorization
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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