Andrew Braithwaite

Nocturne with Poor Decisions That time, say, you shoved me against the wall and we pretended we liked things rough. We don’t have to live in separate...

On Not Being an Axeman Swing the apple blade, maul the ash. A cutting of late honeysuckle in a penny vase. I have romanced hawks and fieldstone and the notion...

You Would Become Some nights you lie next to him as he sleeps, shadowy light striping his face, and think you would do anything to enter him. You would become music, some orchestral or unsteady...

Hippotherapy I cannot remember a time when you weren’t strange, dressed up in your white tights and turtleneck, become the white mare, barefoot galloping the yard on your hands...

Muscling Memory Every time you get in the car you check the height of your seat, the mirror placement, try to remember if this is the way the...

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” —Jack Kerouac, On the Road In September I set off on a...

Cathode Sometimes, my memory is like an old television set, turned on after the show has started.  The screen takes a few minutes to warm...

Drinking the OED I lose some days to the dictionary. On these blessed, dangerous days, I wake up late, and, post coffee and breakfast burrito,...

Crazy Rosalee had just pulled me out onto the porch, away from everyone else, away from Anne. Even though Rosalee is Anne’s mother, Anne almost...

Job Description Job Title: Mental Health Worker Job Code/ Req#: 1234 Department/ Group: Special needs child psychiatric unit Travel Required: n/a Level/Salary Range: Low. You will work for administrators who have never worked on the...