Molly Brodak
Molly Brodak is the author of Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir (Grove Atlantic, 2016) and A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010). Brodak's poems appeared widely, including in Granta, Poetry magazine, Fence, Map Literary, New York Tyrant, Diode, New Orleans Review, Ninth Letter, Colorado Review, Bateau, and Hayden's Ferry Review. She died in early 2020. Source
Molly Brodack
I am a good man.
The amount of fear
I am ok with
is insane
I love many people
who don’t love me.
I don’t actually know
if that is true.
This is love.
It is a mass of ice
melting, I can’t hold
it and I have nowhere
to put it down.
Published:
2020
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Identity
Love & Relationships
Literary Devices:
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Antithesis
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic