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Brown Study Jack Hanson (bio) BROWN STUDY Part of you was still there, creakingat the weight of everything Ihad buried you beneath. It feltlike a moment for pardon, thoughneither you nor I had eversought forgiveness, breathed a rattleof repentance. In the end, fearfound you, dragged you up, slapped your dirtcoveredcollar, offered you drink,nodded along as you croakedout dry and cracked excuses.A coat of dust softened the words.I listened and did not know, norwas meant to, why you came that day.The room filled with the scent of earth. [End Page 268] Jack Hanson JACK HANSON is a doctoral student in religious studies at Yale University. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, Kenyon Review Online, Berfrois, Open Letters Monthly, and elsewhere. He lives in New York. Copyright © 2020 Jack Hanson
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