Neophiliac
Kevin Brown And the house will have a cathedral ceiling, a jetted tub with room for two, maybe three, walls painted cranberry or cracker crumbs, in the urban downtown of a mid-sized city with a lively local food scene with seasonal squash and leafy greens, art galleries and museums with MOMA exhibits every three months, something from the Tate twice a year. And you will lounge in lingerie reading hot literary fiction of the summer or listening to NPR, moved by the story of a schizophrenic who graduated from high school at fifty-three; no kids to cut off conversations or make us leave our lovemaking for another day, another month. And late at night, when you are in bed, I will use our wireless connection to look at listings—a barn refurbished into a B&B or a flat in London, how long it takes to become an architect, or a redhead who promises to light my life on fire—ignore the lifeless graying panties on the shower rod, the dripping faucet a contractor could easily repair. |
About the author: Kevin Brown is a Professor at Lee University. He has published three books of poetry: Liturgical Calendar: Poems (forthcoming from Wipf and Stock); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009). He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again, and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels. He received his MFA from Murray State University. You can find out more about him and his work here. |