A Study of My Own
POETRY
by Eric Braude
My parents granted me the lavatory
above their corner store
—I starting college, my shared
home bedroom bedlam.
Facing the toilet, toiling nightly
at a plywood board and lost
to mathematics, I slipped
between the two infinities—
countable, uncountable.
Eric Braude grew up in South Africa and is currently a professor of computer science. He won the 27th annual Eagle-Tribune/Robert Frost Foundation Spring Poetry Contest and wrote the front matter poem for the Grey Court Poets’ anthology Songs from the Castle’s Remains, which was published in 2013. Braude’s poetry has previously appeared in Poetica and South Florida Poetry Journal, and his work is forthcoming in Constellations, I-70 Review, and J Journal.
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