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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Bryan Borland is founding publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press and author of four books of poems including DIG (Stillhouse Press), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry and a Stonewall Honor Book in Literature as selected by the American Library Association.
Sometimes I Try To Save The World Only To Find It’s Already Been Saved
Young girl thirteen but barely
at our table full of books her eyes
full of hunger of knowledge
of recognition she knows
a mirror when she sees a mirror
her mother and little sister three
tables down her eyes fall
on our anthology of southern
queer writers we're in Memphis after
all she asks how much it costs
and I say it's on sale just
for this minute this hour of this day
it's free I speak quickly I whisper
when I say it not knowing
the giants of her life I tell her
to put it in her bag before
her mother and little sister
join us before the little sister points
to the same anthology of queer writers
before the little sister
tells her mother she wants it
before her mother says baby
as long as you are reading
I'll buy you all the books
in the world
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
