connor brown

Connor Brown is a writer and clinical mental health counseling student from Wheaton, IL. His previous poetry has appeared digitally in Ekstasis Magazine. He also maintains The Kingfisher Chronicle, a Substack newsletter that renders gleanings from theology, philosophy, literature, and art into cross-genre meditations on the spiritual life.

saturday

The sun in a black puddle

on a bench in the marsh

shone so brightly

I almost was blinded

    so it is these days

    with all earth’s darkest windows

Don’t tell me the world ends

in the unbearable heat

of bombs and blood

and carbon—

    Everything  wrote Rilke

    is a patient gestation

    and then the bringing forth

So if I show your tentative hands

to the wound just under

my ribs    you must not

despair    It is only pregnant

    freshly    with life

Read Connor’s work and more in Solum Journal Volume V (forthcoming).