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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Noor Hindi is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry through the NEOMFA program. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Jet Fuel Review, Diode Poetry, Whiskey Island Magazine, Flock Literary Journal, and Foundry. Her chapbook, Diary of A Filthy Woman, is forthcoming in 2018 from Porkbelly Press. She reads poetry for The University of Akron Press and writes for The Devil Strip Magazine.
Filthy Woman Writes a Letter
for Nabra Hassanen
Dear America I am plucking
your dandelions and eating them too
I greedily swallow everything
that comes from your earth this land
is not my land this country
is not my country yet still I pull a root
from my two front teeth I shine
a smile to you as I consume what
is yours I am a filthy immigrant
I take your jobs beware the way
I sink my knees into a dusty prayer
rug and wish you a happy Ramadan
*
Dear America this week
you are a blonde haired boy shouting
REMOVE THE BOMBS STRAPPED
TO YOUR CHEST BITCH
to my cousin did you notice
the way her hands became fists then
tear drops? You told me just yesterday
my father looks like Osama bin Laden
you screamed IT'S JUST A JOKE there is
violence hidden behind the curtains
of your humor I don't want to unmask
*
Dear America this Ramadan
I am Nabra and you are beating my body
with a baseball bat
before you swing, I already know
of your darkness your fear is so exact
you will not miss me yet still
I scream into the night
no more no more no
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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