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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kristen Rouisse holds an MFA in poetry from the University of South Florida. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Lunch Ticket, Hobart, and elsewhere. She is former poetry and nonfiction editor for Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art.
Kalopsia
Before the cacophony of water
transfigures us Godless
we slip inside,
slip away —
an apparition of limbs
kicking up riverbed clouds.
And before I know
how to breathe
underwater I know pale light
between parted lips.
Freckled shoulders you peel
off like a t-shirt
to wrap me in.
Because on the opposite
side of skin,
a soft brown rabbit
thrums her soft brown foot.
And I, too, know slaughter
is often delayed.
On shore, the fire's throat
opens, embers.
Yet we leave
conversation for the pines.
Leave our tongues,
folded and shelved.
Speechless before such bright spit.
Lost & Found is published by Glass Poetry Press as part of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. This project publishes work that was accepted by journals that ceased publication before the work was released.
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