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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Julie Brooks Barbour is the author of two full-length collections, Haunted City (2017) and Small Chimes (2014), both from Kelsay Books. Her most recent chapbook, Beautifully Whole, was published by Hermeneutic Chaos Press in 2015. She is co-editor of Border Crossing and Poetry Editor at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and teaches writing at Lake Superior State University.
January
You never meant to call the birds
but they answered. They battered
the ice on the window, then
like nothing happened, settled
in a dormant tree and pecked
the branches. You remember
that knocking for days afterward,
not a tap but a sound close
to a bang, rapid and echoing
through the room, the same
as your wanting that leaves
no trail but hums in your ears,
always remembered, close to
catastrophic. What sound now
at the window? Birds perch
outside in a birch tree,
fluttering and shaking snow
from their feathers.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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