https://www.brettgordonpoetry.comRSS Feed for Brett Gordon Poetry.enSun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.jackwildpublishing.co/the-art-of-shapeshiftingPoetry Collection 2025Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.jackwildpublishing.co/the-art-of-shapeshiftinghttps://www.jackwildpublishing.co/the-art-of-shapeshifting“’Air’s love language is touch’, Brett Gordon writes in The Art of Shapeshifting, a beautiful collection of poems in which land and air burst into a kaleidoscope of reckonings. As nectarine moons glaze, as a daughter buries a mother, so too does a speaker yearn for places she has never touched, will never touch again: Nectarine moons, Bolivian salt flats, Castelo peacocks bickering in Portugal’s trees. ‘Be like water’, she implores her reader as we dovetail between life and death, redeye flights...Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.jackwildpublishing.co/the-art-of-shapeshiftinghttps://www.quillkeeperspress.com/the-aerial-perspective-literary-journal/2-3-3rd-4-quarter-2024In the Inkwell with Brett Gordon- pg. 22-26Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.quillkeeperspress.com/the-aerial-perspective-literary-journal/2-3-3rd-4-quarter-2024https://simplebooklet.com/carolinamuseviii#page=11Rare Act of Violence- pg. 10Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://simplebooklet.com/carolinamuseviii#page=11https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/17035dc8-829b-496d-bcd8-20b3fc457bfb.jpgPoems featured in January and May editions of Appalachia Bare.Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/17035dc8-829b-496d-bcd8-20b3fc457bfb.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/d98297bc-9d29-48a2-9eef-3be56e75c5f7.jpgLocal Gems PressTue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/d98297bc-9d29-48a2-9eef-3be56e75c5f7.jpghttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/cbb0afa5-79bd-4d43-acb0-d73c4a57d74b.jpg"If It Calls Your Name" Poems Brett GordonTue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/300690/images/cbb0afa5-79bd-4d43-acb0-d73c4a57d74b.jpghttps://www.brettgordonpoetry.com/articles/winner-of-jack-wild-publishings-2023-summer-chapbook-contest/Winner of Jack Wild Publishing's 2023 Summer Chapbook ContestTue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.brettgordonpoetry.com/articles/winner-of-jack-wild-publishings-2023-summer-chapbook-contest/https://www.appalachiabare.com/really-loud-and-partially-deaf/“Really Loud and Partially Deaf” dedicated to my Husband, Army Veteran Mark Batton My wife brings up a basket of laundry. She doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t need to. I know she despises folding laundry. It’s a load of towels. I grab one. Warm and fresh-smelling. I fold it in half, then fold again, the way it fits best under the cabinet. I’m driving the Humvee. We’re on patrol in the village. Alert, I eyeball suspect sand. 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I stand with my heart a breakin’ ‘fore I fear he’s not coming back. We were to be married this autumn but the war broke out in June. With brothers at odds in the fighting, I fear this is no Civil tune. Visions of blood, tears and sorrow, I fear he isn’t so well. I pray for the wake of tomorrow, and for my love, I cast a spell. I summon the thing that shall not be named. 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