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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Dominick Knowles [they/them] is a nonbinary poet, union steward, and Ph.D. candidate, as well as the poetry editor of Protean Magazine. Their dissertation focuses on Cold War U.S. poetry and imperialism in Latin America. They have published essays in Viewpoint Magazine and Modernism/modernity Print+, with an article on Marx's Grundrisse forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press. Their poems have appeared in various anti-presses such as Paintbucket, marlskarx, and the Living Journal.
nocturne interrogative (for RD, who sleeptalks)
do you know
if the flakes
of almond
still kiss
pearl-white
gourami
mouths, mouse
faces
without
their ears
or if the
pigeon still
flies thru
lemonrind
sky, singing:
“once i held
all the keys”
or if the
hurricanes
still fling
tamarind,
corn silk,
caraway,
stale oats
tasting of
roasted meat
(you nourish
my skin,
our cholest-
erol cloak)
but baby
do you see
the dying
purple pea
will you list
its limbs and
ligaments
before the
tender
sidewalk
gurgles snow
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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