Of Age
The day comes crawling
I marry the theory
It’s just river
Outside my laughable house
Become flowered
What is the duration
Its object
I go in search of–
The fruit is tiny and sharp
“The age one few people reach”
Poems and Texts
“Of Age” by Hannah Brooks-Motl
Hannah Brooks-Motl
Hannah Brooks-Motl is the author of the chapbook The Montaigne Result (Song Cave, 2013) and the full-length collections The New Years (Rescue Press, 2014) and M (Song Cave, 2015). Recent work has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing, the Cambridge Literary Review, and Prelude. She lives in Chicago and western Massachusetts.