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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Nov 01, 2018 2 minutes
    JERICHO BROWN

    Duplex

    A poem is a gesture toward home.
    It makes dark demands I call my own.

    Memory makes demands darker than my own:
    My last love drove a burgundy car.

    My first love drove a burgundy car.
    He was fast and awful, tall as my father.

    Steadfast and awful, my tall fatherHit hard as a

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