Leah Browning Biography

Skin scrubbed clean and glowing
after a shower, the scent of shampoo.

Lying in bed on a winter morning
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After a few days, you know how to navigate
one-handed, how to fold the baby into
the nook of your arm. Nursing, that most natural
and impossible task, becomes second nature.
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After work, I follow as she does
the shopping. I see that you still love
shrimp, and a plain green salad.
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The snow falls in petals, as if, just outside
my range of vision, there is a wedding taking place
in the dim blue light of a winter morning.
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He has a tattoo of your name on his left bicep,
a relic from his time in the Navy.

You know all of his freckles and scars,
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