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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Orison Anthology and Best of the Net. Sarah is the author of two poetry chapbooks, including Accommodations, winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award (2018.) Her debut full-length collection, The Grief Committee Minutes, was released from Saint Julian Press in September 2024. Her next book, Bloodstream, is under contract with Mercer University Press for publication in 2026.
Also by Sarah Carey:
The Grief Committee Minutes
Accommodations
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
What I Tell My Unborn Children When They Ask Me Where I Come From
Exploring Roots in the Hair Salon
April 30, 2025
Anchorage
If an anchorage is a holdfast,
is root-like, fixes aquatic organisms
to their substrate —
think kelp, or how a spider's silken tethers
help it move —
perhaps a bloodstream is an anchorage,
scaffold, a branching out
from origin to vein, lineage
to story, a riverbed. I flow up
to meet you, protean
hypothesis. Dwell in echo,
undertow. Where we come from
doesn’t ordain what we cling to.
I fell in love with the word “holdfast” when I read it in an essay by my friend, the poet William Woolfitt, and the concept of a holdfast as a specialized biological anchoring structure resonated with me as a kind of metaphor for the anchorages of family traditions, genetic inheritance and physical places of origin — all of which are key subjects in my work. I liked the title “Anchorage,” because it spoke to the themes I was trying to conjure in the poem, but also because Anchorage, Alaska is where my father lived toward the end of his life and a place I have visited many times, so it has special meaning to me.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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