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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Duncan Slagle is a queer writer & performer from Ketchikan, Alaska by way of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is currently a First Wave Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as the Special Programs Associate on the 2017 Youth Advisory Board for TruArtSpeaks. He has performed at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis & The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He loves birds.
Funeral Moodboard
A mouthful of lavender.
No softness left
uncelebrated.
All of our dead kin
wailing.
Soundproofing the ceiling.
Soundproofing the coffin. Drown out the heavenshriek.
Textbook on queer resistance.
Oral history with cum
just swallowed.
All our teeth fashioned
into a necklace.
Pearls between
each molar.
Rhinestone the autopsy.
Glitter bomb the morgue. Sidewalk memorialized properly.
If it was suicide, it was murder.
Check this Country's hands at the door.
Tell the truth
or else
I'm not showing up.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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