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Henry Braun

Henry Braun is a retired English professor and poet who lives in Mt. Blue State Park in Weld. A bushel of his older poems are on the Web, and his books, including Loyalty, are in libraries and book stores.

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Poet’s Corner: A Big City Christmas Poem

December 25, 2013December 25, 2013

So many wreaths and trees are hostages
For the withdrawing spirit. Even the jails
Are covered with them and the station houses
Twinkle in boughs and bulbs a festive welcome.…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: Inauguration Day In Wartime

January 21, 2013January 21, 2013

by Henry Braun

Humans burn humans.
With your permission,
the only animal that runs toward fire
to save, to gawk, to liven up the night,
cancels with fire the quick network of borders.…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: Blessed Art

December 13, 2012December 13, 2012

By Henry Braun
The Appeals Court in Boston recently supported Maine's Governor Paul LePage in his removal and hiding of the history of Maine labor murals from the Labor Department's waiting room in…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: After The Election

November 11, 2012

by Henry Braun
A secret I know about America,
huge and twitching land of rumor
and cloud mountain, goes:…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: Sitting as Admitting

May 15, 2012

by Henry Braun

To sit is to admit the emptinesses
of all one's losses, pointedly not here,
one after the other: maybes, noes, and yeses
bodied with wings (if they ever were.)…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: CRUMBGIVING

November 24, 2011November 28, 2011

Only from our point of view as masters of the table
does the eater of crumbs glow with a terrible
loveliness.…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: Our Homes

October 23, 2011

By Henry Braun
Our homes, day after day, define us
up and down: window shades
letting there be darkness after light,
tables laid in the kingdom of waiting,…

Arts

Poet’s Corner

February 4, 2011February 4, 2011

DOVES ADDRESSING HAWKS
(from a roof in Cairo, Egypt)
"Before this hour is pried by your hawk's wing
rising from its gray nest above the lawns…

Arts

Poet’s Corner: For Election Day 2010

November 2, 2010

We burn cities.
With your permission
the only animal that runs toward fire
to save, to gawk, to liven up the night,
cancels with fire the quick networks of borders.…

Arts

Poet’s Corner

September 2, 2010

THINKING REEDS ASWAY Happening, nowadays, feels different, everyone watching how our shoulders bend inward as if preparing for a doorway narrower than most, how memory with legs and arms and fingertips for…

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