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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Liz Flint-Somerville studied with David Biespiel and Paulann Petersen in the Atheneum Master Writing Program at the Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon. She now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, and writes about Poems for Everyday Use at thegluhbirne.tumblr.com. Her work has been published in VoiceCatcher, Ouroboros Review, and Ellipsis, among others..
Also by Liz Flint-Somerville:
Foreign Objects
I (Heart) Roadkill Drones
There is a man with roadkill
and he makes those stiff kitties
into drones and FB told me and
the comments are mostly appalled
(137K of them) and I think
he is a beautiful maker of time
machines because Drones
because their flight skipped
some important questions like Who
how & why and we gave up nude
sunbathing and sex with the lights on
and hiding underground heroes
and unbombed ancient cities – oops
a few schools–
before we asked before we thought
much before we noticed how hard & putrid
our left-overs
fly-overs
throw-overs
are.
I wrote "I (Heart) Roadkill Drones" after a friend shared a link on Facebook, and I watched a video about an artist and taxidermist fusing their technologies with drone technology. Their project was such a perfect metaphor for the prolific use of drones that the poem was written quite quickly, and I tried to match their tongue-in-cheek tone as best I could.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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