Leah Browning's fiction, poetry, essays, and articles have appeared in a variety of publications including Queen's Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Saint Ann’s Review, Literary Mama, 42opus, Blood Orange Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Autumn Sky Poetry, Brink Magazine, and several anthologies. Browning is a native of New Mexico. Her website can be found at www.leahbrowning.com.
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.
...
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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