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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Tara Skurtu is a two-time U.S. Fulbright grantee and recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of The Amoeba Game.
Guilt Eater
My mother’s God, her mother’s, her mother’s mother’s —
he feeds us his guilt. And we eat it. Like a dog eats
a foul thing twice. And do it again and again.
I turn you to face me, take all of your sleeping
breath in. I’m from a line of guilt eaters —
I’m learning to keep it down.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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