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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Jasmine Cui is 17 years old and is majoring in Political Science, Economics, and Violin Performance at SUNY Geneseo. She aspires to be like her parents who are first-generation Americans that fought an extraordinary battle for their place in this country.
Also by Jasmine Cui:
Out of Water
Iguala de la Independencia
December 28, 2016
Karyotype
America, sterile. I am Boston
born, but lineage is chronicled
karyotypically. The body is
46 chromosomes. I am grandmother
folded into mother folded
into me. Rice paper, twisted
into translucent swans. I am embolism,
hidden in radial artery as my father
learns how to dissect a heart and stitch
it back together with zip ties
and dental floss. Knuckles wrenched
into ampersands. Shanghai sunset
flush across the face. Syllabic
stutters I mistook for suffocation.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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