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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet who is in love with the moon. Ally’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Bettering American Poetry, and their poems appear in Nepantla, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Shade Journal, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook, Monstrosity, was published by Damaged Goods Press in 2016.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Portrait of a Modern Woman
The Universe Drinks Me in like It’s Dying of Thirst
I am so powerful, I can’t even contain
my magnificence. it spills out of me
no matter how hard I try
to control it. the universe sees me
& swells with anticipation
of what I might become. the universe
looks at me & whispers: you are so full
of potential. a man looks me up & down
& wonders how he can split
me into pieces, make me smaller
but my body has never learned how to kneel
before any man. some days, I am so holy
that my body threatens to break
beneath the weight of its own brilliance.
I do not apologize
for my abundance. when the world ends
it will sing my name with its dying breath.
when the world ends, I will devour
its undoing. so large. so magnificent. so full
of potential.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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