[vc_row row_height_percent=”50″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ back_image=”56863″ back_position=”center top” overlay_alpha=”0″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” style=”dark” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”fontsize-338686″ text_height=”fontheight-179065″ text_space=”fontspace-111509″ text_font=”font-762333″ text_weight=”700″ text_color=”color-xsdn” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”by Matthew Kilbane”]Brennan,[/vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s called contouring
you tell me, what you’re doing to your cheekbones
in our parent’s bathroom mirror, in wreathes
of shower steam the slatted
sunlight’s soaking up with jewels, a whole cosmos coming
magically to the morning’s order
under your sorcering hand; you’re lofting
what frames you
to the glittering
surface like an archeologist might
unearth after decades of digging
some missing link species of hominin,
luring it out
through the layered rock
of a strange country
in whose language she has all this time
somehow—how?—never learned
to say the goddamn simplest things: I’m sorry— Which way
is home?— Please, what do you call this?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_empty_space][vc_separator sep_color=”color-184322″ el_width=”30%”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_right” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_single_image media=”58472″ media_width_percent=”100″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Originally from Cleveland, OH and a graduate of Purdue University’s MFA program, Matthew Kilbane currently lives in Ithaca, NY, where he is completing a PhD in English at Cornell University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]