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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Alycia Pirmohamed is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh and received her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Grain Magazine, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, wildness, and Flying South Literary Magazine.
Also by Alycia Pirmohamed:
Ode to My Mother's Hair
On the North Saskatchewan River
Nights / Flatline
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Endearments
Endearments
I have itemized
your oak leaf long limb wild
& have begun to name you things like
"summer eclipse
in my offline calendar" or even "sleeping
under the stars
in a Wal-Mart parking lot"
& honestly
that kind of romance is okay with me,
because secretly I have also named you "river of pine"
& "blossoming spring flower along the path to
Mount Yamnuska"
there is also your skin & my skin
there is also the way skin & skin are two
vastly different things
that this language has difficulty
capturing
"every constellated mole" &
"pillar of dark shade" how all of these names
describe the way
we coexist
& exist within one another —
the way you disappear into the trees
& I follow.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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