TR Brady
Tarot
You will have a year You will throw your phone into the Iowa River You will
buy a window AC unit that will pump wildfire smoke into your apartment
Your lover will bring you icepacks wrapped in old t-shirts and place one on
your head and one on your chest You won’t get much snow and the ground
will drink the moonlight dark You will bark and bark all night You will pay off
your rabies vaccine You will become confused by the modern noise of a
washing machine You will write your own ransom note as an exercise in
actualizing your urges You will replace your car’s windshield for the second
time in two years You will replace your grief You will shave your
bare face bare
TR Brady (they/them) is a poet from Arkansas currently living in Moscow, Idaho, where they edit Afternoon Visitor. TR's first book of poetry, Return Signal, is forthcoming from Fonograf Editions in 2026. Their writing has appeared in Tin House, Bennington Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. TR received their MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.