Divorce | by Michael D. Brown, Ph.D.

Face to face,

Two battering rams,

Horns lock, interlock, the force

Of energy pulling resistance

Apart, the distance narrowed

To a union, a cell division,

The simple uncomplicated

Polarity of mixing two

Incompatible substances

Together

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Michael Brown is an American Award winning poet, author of 17 books including 6 volumes of poetry. He is an international lecturer and literary reviewer who currently teaches Chinese Ph.D.s in China's former capital city, Nanjing. His latest book,"Brown's Simplified English Grammar," is availabe with Mandarin translation.

i | by Michael D. Brown, Ph.D.

E.E. Cummings

gives me my first

lower case i:

i love reading it

so small, personal,

unassuming:

so intimate a humility,

even the dust landing,

can only surround : displace

the capital, colossal,

formality of it,

as if it were insufferable,

an unlikable ego;

yet, i gets to be

in the first person,

whenever we speak

of it as things

truly ought to be.

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Michael Brown is an American Award winning poet, author of 17 books including 6 volumes of poetry. He is an international lecturer and literary reviewer who currently teaches Chinese Ph.D.s in China's former capital city, Nanjing. His latest book,"Brown's Simplified English Grammar," is availabe with Mandarin translation.