Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson is the author of Self-Portrait, a chapbook; Torch Lake and Other Poems, a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award; and Site Visits, a collaborative work with the German painter Burghard Müller-Dannhausen. He teaches poetry, composition, and classical rhetoric at Southern Connecticut State University.

Brian Johnson

Big With Child

Emptiness is big with child And Thievery the same:  Thievery’s big with child. The window is too big With child, again When it rains. Forests, they are big with child.                                                     If you lose your way, you lose the child. A hat is also big with child. Straw or felt, with child— Panama, ten-gallon, Big with […]