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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kyle Marbut is a writer and student from Ashland, Ohio. He studies English at Baldwin Wallace University. This is his first publication.
Octopolis
Now comes the news that octopuses
have been building their own cities down there.
— Phillip Hoare, The Guardian, Sept. 18, 2017
I would like the octopus
who finds this
after the rising sea
has made ghosts of us
to know the window
he slipped in through
used to be mine.
This washed-out room
was a palace,
the swollen books
full of spells,
the picked-clean
skeleton in the corner
a lonely king. I left
my tomb open
for him to find
so he could
keep me company,
build a city
out of these relics —
maybe he could
love them better
with his three hearts
than I ever did
when I lived
a long time ago
above the crashing
blue sky. I'm leaving
my windows open,
this poem on my desk
under three heavy rocks,
so he can see
how much I miss
this old life of mine.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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