“The Night Kitchen” by Brandel France de Bravo

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mother_loose_cover_thumb-167x258It all began with a sleepless moon
counting cows and covering the counters
with sudsy light. The dented and rusty
still speak of that night, how back in the day
they used to dine with the dish and spoon,
and the young follow in their footsteps:
the trivet eloped with the teapot,
the spatula proposed to the pan,
and somewhere, they say,
the sieve and whisk are shacking up.

But the carving knife keeps company
with no one. Head buried deep
in a wooden block, he shuns the dull
familiar, this futile utensil love.
Let them tie their knots. He will write
mash notes to occlusive consonants,
the plosive “d” of divide, divorce
and … Sometimes at night
he can be heard moaning softly,
stirred by the glint of memory:

the firm grip of the farmer’s wife,
the three tails writhing,
the mice who never saw what was coming.

-Brandel France de Bravo
Mother, Loose
(Accents Publishing)

brandel_france_de_bravo_thumbBrandel France de Bravo is the author of Provenance, which won the 2008Washington Writers’ Publishing House prize in poetry and was a ForeWord Book of the Year finalist. Her poems, which have been nominated for thePushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and essays have appeared in various journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review,Gulf Coast, and Seneca Review. She is co-author of Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise your Child in a Complex World and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College with a master’s in public health, she works for a consumer health organization in Washington, D.C.

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