John Brehm

Biography

John Brehm is the author of Sea of Faith (2004), winner of the University of Wisconsin Press’s Brittingham Prize, and the chapbook The Way Water Moves (Flume Press, 2002). His work has also appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Best American Poetry 1999, and other journals. He is a freelance writer and lives in Brooklyn.

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POETRY / Fall 2004

Walking Underground

By John Brehm

Why did it fascinate me so much,
that ditch my father had dug
in the front lawn to fix
a faulty pipe? I couldn’t keep