“hush (hush)” Poetry by Rebbecca Brown.

hush (hush)

shhh

            (ivering knuckle)

                                                bone

            bar

                        (ring)               left

be (hind hounds)

gone                                        (digging)

            a sh (ining)  h (edge)

            some

                                    (where)

be                   

(neath)

                                                            see (crit  ical)

I don’t

            shhh (owe)

                                                you

                        (a)

thing

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Rebbecca Brown is author of the novel They Become Her (What Books Press) and the lyrical prose collection Mouth Trap (Arc Pair Press).  Her work has appeared in The Hunger, American Literary Review, Confrontation, Eclipse, Masque and Spectacle and Miracle Monocle (among others). She currently lives in California and teaches in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.