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brownfield heart

by Anna Weaver and Doc Hutchings

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In the world of commercial real estate, a brownfield is a site that is—or is believed to be—environmentally contaminated.

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brownfield heart

There was a factory in my hometown,

boarded over, every interior door hanging 


open by the screws and broken glass glittering 

the floors throughout. A few pigeons, sure,

but no condoms or needles or homeless 
people.
(It wasn’t that big a town.)

Only the iridescent glass to make us tread 
lightly
when we broke in on a high school dare.

Years before, right when it closed, they found
a storage room full of barrels—sealed, no labels.

Developers came to look many times
but would never close the deal. It wasn’t

the economy. It was the barrels, and the lack
of paperwork to prove what wasn’t inside.

I thought about that beautiful ruin 

the day the judge signed my divorce papers,

which also didn’t say what wasn’t inside.
And I thought about my condemned heart

and how I could not be trusted to testify
to its harmlessness or fitness for future use.

I knew that for years to come they’d declare me
too risky until eventually the calendar ticked off

the half-life of some imagined poison.

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released July 22, 2017
Words by Anna Weaver. Originally published in Survive and Thrive, Volume 2, Issue 1. Music by Stephen "Doc" Hutchings. Recorded at Osceola Studios, Raleigh, NC, in December 2016.

Photo by Anna Weaver.

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Poets Anna Weaver and Ben Molini and musician Stephen "Doc" Hutchings live, work, and collaborate in Raleigh, NC. As half of the acoustic duo FreeRadikal, Doc has recorded two albums, with a third in the works. Ben's and Anna's poems have appeared in journals, zines, anthologies, and elsewhere. Their creative partnerships took root and thrive at local open mic nights. ... more

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