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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Carol Berg's poems are forthcoming or in DMQ Review, Sou'wester, The Journal, Spillway, Redactions, Radar Poetry, Verse Wisconsin, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Her Vena Amoris (Red Bird Chapbooks), is available and her chapbooks, Ophelia Unraveling and The Ornithologist Poems, are both available from dancing girl press. She was a recipient of a finalist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Johnson Girls in Bud
We are the opposite of negotiations:
documenting all perceived short cuts
the fingerprints on throaty scarves, tracks in newly fallen
crumbs in our bedrooms.
We use the language of fortune cookies to confuse:
Soon you will find a small brown bird that flies
in luck. Translation: storm clouds brewing in your sheets.
We each have our secret passwords for please pass the knives.
We report on our conversations with Nature: the running river carries
dreams of mud and abandonment. We hold its green gunk
in our fenced-in mouths. We confess to stolen stones, stolen turtles, stolen celebrations
in the dark cars. The rows of purple crocuses we tattoo on our arms
whisper, now you're already home. We tell each other, this much blood is normal.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
All contents © the author.
All contents © the author.
