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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet, and a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Arizona State University. He received his Master of Arts in English from Saint Louis University and his Master of Arts in Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. His poems have been published in the Albion Review and PBS NewsHour.
Also by Ernesto L. Abeytia:
Pamplona
April 29, 2017
My Lover is a Robot
In her chest, a generator drones,
Buzzes with emotions calculated, denied.
Her lips, a steel smile full of gnash,
Absent of laughter, a kiss I call pain.
Behind grey eyes, she is almost delicate,
A butterfly pinned against cork.
I update her with rich words: haricot, cellar door,
Try to repair years of damage, mechanical gestures,
Install fervor, a hedgerow of azaleas,
Rhododendrons, fireflies in mist,
Smooth her hair with daffodils,
Blooming springtime bulbs.
Her response is blank speech.
Her breath, monotony.
Editor's Note: This poem was selected from a Twitter prompt challenge where Glass Poetry Press (@glass_poetry) asked readers to write a poem in response to the images in this tweet. Glass tweeted the poem, line by line, on Saturday, April 29, 2017. You can find the original Twitter thread here.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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