Both Portraits
In this poem, a narrator remembers a woman he's lost. He remembers how she posed for a portrait and keeps lying to himself, telling himself she will come back soon. However, the lady never returns, and eventually the man takes the portrait off the wall.
Inspiration
In this poem, Braden describes an owl feather that he found on a walk one day while following a coyote. He goes into great detail describing the feather, and then subtly links the feather to writing, mentioning lessons that could be learned from it, and calling the feather a quill that writes on air.
Your Life As Found In A Toolbox
Here, Braden uses a toolbox full of tools as a metaphor for life's important memories and the things that matter. In the poem, he goes through an inventory of the toolbox, mentioning various tools, their uses, and their associations.
