Name: In the Field Between Us
ISBN: 9780892555147

Molly McCully Brown

Susannah Nevison

This exquisite exchange of poem-letters between two disabled writers traces their struggle to find purchase in inhospitable landscapes--topographical, social, emotional, semantic.

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In the Field Between Us

heather

Dear S--
I keep a lot of lanterns in the house
for the ways we might one day be able
to get lost, a lot of matches so my smaller
selves can light their way along the road.
They get distracted, drop them lit, a pasture
burns: tobacco, strawberries, our skin
comes right off with the plaster.
They seem surprised, sometimes, by all
the damage, other times they're just in love
with how the light takes over for awhile. S,
you're right, we're all they know. I send them
up the road, they trail a blaze right home
to climb back down the throat they came from,
hungry, tired from the show, and ill-equipped
to make it on their own. Who'd have
thought it, that anybody's country
was in our bones?

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