Dawn Bratton

I see poetry everywhere.

Living Poetry

exists in a space between opposite-but-connected images—like comedy and tragedy, light and dark, or life and death. Where existence meets itself in the mirror and recognizes: All this…

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Selected Poems

Transparency

is not about being honest

but becoming see-through

and there is a difference when

you don’t get to choose what

comes through…

Sweet Oblivion

Sweet Oblivion, master and creator of my fate

it’s you I’m seeking, it’s you who’s been seeking me

it’s you I’ve been communing with for a lifetime…

The Green Poem

This poem thinks Green.

One time an aura reader at a meditation group told me I was green; I thought he was crazy.

now? a green moment has presented itself…

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Dawn Bratton sitting on turquoise mosaic art bench in outdoor setting, poet and writer

About

I’m a poet and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My work orbits the image of eyes and the theme of perception. Working across poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and video art, I explore how expanding horizons and reconciliation of contradictions informs how we experience existence…

Living Poetry