Kate Bravermn - The Woman Who Sold Communion

On her website, Kate is described as a ruthless poet and writer. Just about sums it up. This story is ruthless.


1. They spoke as if with flags the way people do at sea, where conditions are mutable, possibilities limited and primitive. She choreographed pieces of cloth. The air was so many fabrics.

2. The hills were a brutal stale green with brittle shrubs like dry stubble.

3. The air is cool and the amber of honey and whiskey. It is the color of an afternoon shot-out.

4. Amy watches Raven taking her form of communion beneath an aggressively streaked sunset the texture of metal.

5. ”I’ve been more intimate with this canyon than all my husbands combined,” she confided. “It’s had more to reveal and more to give.”

6. ”Lonely?” Raven repeated. “I have two friends. New Mexico and Bob Dylan.”