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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Amy Lee Heinlen is the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). You can read her poems at poets.org, Stirring, Wicked Alice, Rogue Agent, Pretty Owl Poetry, Nasty Women Poets: An Anthology of Subversive Verse, and elsewhere. In 2016, she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and the Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing for poetry and publishing. She is a mad-proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops in Pittsburgh, PA.
Only
We try to pair the thread of your life
but nothing grows — at least
not for long. I drink the greenest
apples, crushed, he thins,
disappears into lye. This time
lengthens alongside you.
The rope you walk is slung tree
to tree, branches reach, brush
but end short of one another.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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