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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Theadora Siranian is a graduate of the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Ghost City Press, CONSEQUENCE, and Rust + Moth, among others. In 2013, she was a finalist for The Poet’s Billow Pangaea Prize, and in 2014 was shortlisted for both the Mississippi Review Prize and Southword’s Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. In 2019, Theadora received the Emerging Woman Poet Honor from Small Orange Journal. She currently lives and teaches in Kazakhstan.
Tulpa
There, in the corner: the shorn skull
of some creature rocks,
figure doubling in the mirror, refracting
the light, skin pale as milk quartz, translucent.
As the sun shifts through its body,
the dark curtains blowing over
and around, it becomes less
body and more dust, and we realize
this something bending and turning to shadow
is just our love dismantling in the wind.
“Tulpa” is the final part of a triptych in which I try to capture the way time can move both slowly and quickly. In this poem I envision silence, or, only the sound of the breeze coming through the window, because, I suppose, I was trying to convey a space between and around two people when communication is no longer possible, when they realize that what they have created together is untenable, unreal.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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