The Human Half

Threaded with echoes of familial traumaa sisters battle with cancer, a brothers struggles with depressionthe lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of Vermeer and Van Gogh. Filled with quirks of perception, Deborah Brown holds space for wonder amidst of lifes seasons of longing.