J.M. Braun's work has appeared and is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Fiction International, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM, Bayou Magazine, Failbetter, and elsewhere. Braun is a 2024 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the John Logan Poetry Prize.
hundreds the size of nailheads spawn in what shallows our banks contain darklets in mudclouds clay my brother stirs in fistfuls to sieve through between spaces of fingers here we are stillwater disturbances the canoe slicing into canebrakes the mobile of lures caught twisted in the limbs of trees we shade in we the waterbugs we the herons who stand… Read more →
left alone to the no stranger of myself I lie in a furrow with my tongue dressed in shouts taken by strangeness my backwards love for birdcalls I whistle back to to cows chewing cud I eat mud for field mice the screech owls that snatch them up my love unmatched for paperbacks soaked in roadside puddles my love for… Read more →