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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Marcene Gandolfo’s poems have been published widely in literary journals, including Poet Lore, Bellingham Review, december, and RHINO. In 2014, her debut book, Angles of Departure, won Foreword Reviews’ Silver Award for Poetry. She has taught writing and literature at several northern California colleges and universities.
When She Leaves, I Think of Demeter in Autumn
I forget the taste of blood
from a velvet peach,
the bruised season’s
last hours.
Now she’s just a sun’s
afterimage.
At first I thought I’d lost
my own body,
felt it slip with the wind.
Then I began
to practice the faith
of bare trees,
learned to enter winter,
an empty cathedral,
enter nights as dreams
that sing
in different shades
of green.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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