William Braun
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William Braun lives in Minneapolis, MN. His translations, book reviews, and non-fiction have appeared in various journals, including Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and Rappahannock Review. He is a graduate of the Master’s program in English at the University of St. Thomas.
Winter Matins


Let me worship and live for these things:
the sound and sight of crows, cawing
as they lope from branch to branch;
the gnarled limbs of oaks, blasted
like with lightening; and ever, the sun
that glows pink about the horizon
as its self, majestic and molten, rises
over blackened trees. Let these things
cleanse my fevered thoughts, my fantasies
that race. Let them become my meditations,
my prayers among the labyrinth, my
holy sacraments, tasted, seen, and heard –

as frost, translucent, covers yellow
stoplight poles; as unblemished ice glistens
from every cherry bough.

  




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