“What’s Brittle,” by Noah Stetzer (Poetry ’14)

Poetry alum Noah Stetzer was recently featured in Scoundrel Time. Read an excerpt of “What’s Brittle” below:

What’s Brittle

That place where
it breaks—the faint
hairline crack

that snakes
its spider web
lines out in all

directions, jigsawing
sharp pieces out
of what was once

just a single thing:
a window
I have looked through

forgetting the glass.
The oak seen
for weeks at the top

of the commons
this morning
we found felled…

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://scoundreltime.com/whats-brittle/