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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sarah Ghoshal's work has been published widely in journals such as Cream City Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Mom Egg Review, and The Moon Magazine, among others. She is a professor at Montclair State University, a mom of three, a partner, resister, persister, woman, entrepreneur, and giant fan of Bugs Bunny. She lives in Jersey.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
‘Til the End
Instructions for How to be (Mostly) Happy
Singin’ in the Rain
I admit, my dear,
I am compromised.
I flit past my goals
in the early dawn,
ignore them with a
convenient feeding.
I long for you to
come back from the couch,
to be near me at
night while I dream of
songs that appear in
the morning. I sing.
I sing to you while
you sleep, slowed down show
tunes, Gene Kelly in
a tweed suit, jumping
in puddles we might
ignore as adults.
The kids keep their feet
close enough that we
track movement, follow
their dreams to castles
and campsites until
we just long for each
other, the twining
of hands, the wrapping
of bodies, the warmth
of the familiar,
a previous life,
a story we tell
when we must recall
a world with sleep and
the latest of nights,
the brushed, difficult
realizations of
who we might have been.
The best I can say about this poem is that it is the story of having three kids in five years.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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