Brandon McQuade is the founding editor of Duck Head Journal and the author of two poetry collections, Mango Seed and Bodies. He earned his B.A. from the University of New Brunswick Saint John and his M. Phil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin. For a selection of poems from his second collection, Bodies, he was the recipient of the 2022 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award. He lives in Northern Wyoming with his wife and their children.► Brandon McQuade's microchap & poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.
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SONG FOR AN OLD PINE If you lay down flat it looks so much bigger If you fly overhead seems insignificant. branches whisper Snow-covered, the old pine climbs a mountain It’s never been tended anyone will remember it it’s perfectly self-sufficient isn’t it? |
TURNING THIRTY The blinds are half-drawn has nearly begun
THIS IS IT We’re lying naked in bed and the infinite. Physicists more than this. That the cosmos we are too. That our energy this is it. We are ash or dirt, we’re nothing. I don’t care only that our skin touches |
LOVE POEM War in Ukraine, a pandemic we sit together in this house We can’t stop any of this Our love can’t solve any problems cure any disease or ailment. without a second thought, after rain bleeds down
THE VIEW FROM THE GARAGE These old barn doors have seen so much as the world in front of it. Seeing everything living, it knows the lineage of the black bears and divorces of the families who lived here • Brandon McQuade © 2023 |
