perhappened
  • the mag
    • the issues
    • submit to the mag
  • the press
    • the chapbooks >
      • CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO HELL
      • body in motion
      • sun of daedalus / song of anticlea
    • submit to the press
  • support us
perhappened mag
issue 1: CARNIVAL

tower of terror

HENRY D. BROWN
"abba poemon said, 'even if a man were to make a
new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care'"
* 

holding fast 
to the handle over
creaking restraints -- heaving
upward just for thrill of 
coming back down to earth
in one weightless moment
detached from clenched knuckles
a quiet place, gaze through
disembodied blue shades
for stillness in falling
before bodies snap back
standing dizzy, taking
heavy steps

* The Desert Fathers, 173

Henry D. Brown is a poet and junior Religion major/Spanish minor at Carleton College, where he co-chairs the Democratic Socialists of America. He co-edits Dreams Walking, a literary webzine. His poetry is recent or upcoming in publications including Kingdoms in the Wild, After the Pause, Giallo, Cypress, and Neologism.
perhappened mag
← back    issue 1: CARNIVAL    next →
header photo: brian mcgowan (unsplash)
​

© 2020-22 perhappened LLC
  • the mag
    • the issues
    • submit to the mag
  • the press
    • the chapbooks >
      • CALIFORNIA IS GOING TO HELL
      • body in motion
      • sun of daedalus / song of anticlea
    • submit to the press
  • support us