Brown Study
By Jane Zwart
“these studies are stirred / from other colors. The leaf turns / brown because it has been green / and gold and red.”
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, The Poetry Review (UK), and TriQuarterly, as well as other journals and magazines.
By Jane Zwart
“these studies are stirred / from other colors. The leaf turns / brown because it has been green / and gold and red.”