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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sonja Johanson has recent work appearing in The Best American Poetry blog, BOAAT, Epiphany, and The Writer's Almanac. She is a contributing editor at Eastern Iowa Review, and the author of Impossible Dovetail (IDES, Silver Birch Press), all those ragged scars (Choose the Sword Press), and Trees in Our Dooryards (Red Bird Chapbooks). Sonja divides her time between work in Massachusetts and her home in the mountains of western Maine.
Pigeon, Birth
milk is only
modified sweat
hunched forward
heat streams
down my breasts
gathers
at my nipples
drips
hips open —
fire
a faraway voice:
breathe
breathe into the intensity
choose
not to experience
this as pain
I reflect often on respect for women's experiences and bodily autonomy; the need to do so does not seem to be diminishing over time, but I hold out hope.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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