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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Caroline Earleywine teaches high school English in Central Arkansas where she tries to convince teenagers that poetry is actually cool. She was a semifinalist for Nimrod’s 2018 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and was also a semifinalist for the 2019 Vinyl 45s Chapbook Contest. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Legendary, Nailed Magazine, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and lives in Little Rock with her wife and two dogs.
Also by Caroline Earleywine:
Five Poems
A Toast
Today we drink champagne
for breakfast, straight
from the bottle. Fry eggs
and use the spatula
as a microphone.
Dance when the song
demands to be danced to.
You kiss me between
laughter and we overcook
the eggs.
This week I picked a dress
for our wedding
and one for a funeral.
I know it should feel wrong,
to dance, but nothing
feels more necessary than to take
another slice of champagne, spin you
around and pull you in close, bury
my face in your hair.
Let the toast
burn.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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