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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Dameion Wagner lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. His work has appeared in Columbus Creative Cooperative's first poetry anthology The Ides of March, Shot Glass Journal, Crab Creek Review, Ohio Poetry Association's Common Threads, and is forthcoming in The Gordian Review. He also won Miami University's 2017 Jordan-Goodman poetry prize judged by Janice Lowe.
Also by Dameion Wagner:
Paper Route Mornings
Nighttime Routine
Bedtime routine
your spine | skin-warm
each vertebrae soft | low
low | round like
the foothills of Southern Ohio
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a xylophone, no
marimba. dark |
amber |
wood-warm | each vertebrae played
by my fingers like yarn covered mallets.
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feel the
spine-ridges of fossil | accented
through fine hairs of your back
that lay flat against my
palm
like a display
at a museum of natural history.
This poem was born out of routines, the kind of perfunctory routines that we all find ourselves fulfilling. What makes this routine different is the sentimentality of it …
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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