“he needs
to quit drinking before he dies
of it. He says he hasn’t driven
in nine months, that he’s been
losing friends and took today
off work to get his act together.
I ask how he plans to stop
and he says he’s just going to.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “My brother says” by Carrie Shipers from Vol. 34:3 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Carrie Shipers’s poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Grief Land (University of New Mexico, 2020).