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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Danielle Rose lives in Massachusetts. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, The Shallow Ends, Sundog Lit, Five:2:ONE & Pidgeonholes.
Also by Danielle Rose:
If the Body is a Prison-House Where is the Warden I Have Some Complaints About the Plumbing
On the Creation of New Language from the Reading Lists of the Dead
if i believed in the ninth step i might
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Constitutional Crisis as Water Torture
pretty in soft light
like how eyebrows are a lie / & how this is plucking something out
or taking a razor to rawness again & again / i concern myself
first with methods to interrogate birdsong / & then with scouring
this old thesaurus for a word that means
/ this body is a cascading series of discomforts
& desperate for things it does not understand / like men & women
falling in love / i only imagine romance like licking lips
and too-long stares on the subway / never these clever methods
to devour a persistent yearning / i just want a machine
that turns a raincloud into dreams / i want to look in the mirror
& decide that yes i am pretty in soft light / pretty like a swarm of bees
passed out drunk in a yellow flowerbed / pollen
floating / all in soft light so pretty
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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