Scraped Knees

In her debut poetry chapbook, Kristine Brown captains thirty-nine beautifully crafted poems and stories that bite with honesty. Scraped Knees is an exploration in sensory details; an incense-thickened yet clear-eyed look into the often hazy world around us. Brown scratches at the surface of tender obscurities-fear, love, loneliness-while ripping the scab right off our more tangible struggles-domestic abuse, homelessness, first dates, and suicide hotlines. The poems churn like an ocean. At t...