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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian writer and environmentalist. His poems are featured or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Vinyl, Puerto del sol, Sakura Review, HEArt Online Journal and elsewhere.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Love Story
Self-portrait as a Beach
I do not mean anything that comes out
of my mouth tonight
being drunk and hungry have similar symptoms
I feel stupid saying this
without any scientific proof
you would be the first I would tell this
I have no problem with my tongue although
I say things slightly different from what I meant
I am a beach & always wet
I know you could be thinking of something else
I have been a beach all my life
the trace of blood across my face, purple stains
like a premature rainbow over the sky
that washes down after a drizzle
like a beach that I am, the memories
rides beneath the wave of bubbles
what is left with me are broken eye glasses
missing pairs of children's shoes
misplaced wedding rings that are better left misplaced.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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