KNOT Magazine
Fall Issue 2022
Heather Browne
Neurons
He did surgery on my soul
removing people
pieces
step or stitch
I will carve you, He said
out and open
of everything
unwanted
What do you choose?
A finger?
That friend?
Your knee?
Or are you
perfect
just
as
you
be
The Switch
The light was to crawl within
creating itself a hole
illuminating the spot
to burn
searing flesh
taking space
openness from lack
a fill from the sacred fall
We think removing means gone
or left
but what I see
in this open
space
is
the touching
and light
Portal
I cut me a portal
right above my eyes
a third one
to let in and out
the ancient
open
in air
experiencing other
no touching of any
part
of me
insides
are outsides
breathing in
out
holding
stitching me
up and up and up
pointing above
not at me
not of this life
radiating
all
now within
Heather M. Browne is a faith-based psychotherapist, recently nominated for the Pushcart Award, published in the Orange Room, Boston Literary Review, Page & Spine, Eunoia Review, Poetry Quarterly, Red Fez, Electric Windmill, Apeiron, The Lake, KNOT, mad swirl. Red Dashboard published two collections: Directions of Folding and Altar Call of Trumpets.