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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
AJ Wolff (she/her) is a Wisconsin poet and queer single mother. She is an alumna of UW-Green Bay and Northern Michigan University writing programs. She has been published in Yes Poetry, Burning House Press, L'Éphémère Review, Lammergeier Magazine, Riggwelter, and other generous presses.
Proper Dogma
We stretch arms wide to vein the sky
Inhale — chin back chest pump,
Exhale — face to knees — repeat
I spread my hollowed arms, traffic an earth
Quake beneath you We’re easing
Inhale —
I arc my hollow back — light
With trust and
Love ancient love predates
Grass rocks, exhale — you shoot
Your willow needled throat
Pour my glitter like you mined it
From my lungs, inhale — I
Crumple face on knees to pray
You read smoke my veins
A spider shadow in the off
Beat you’ve had numbed, exhale, cheer —
Your needle galaxies cackle
Out between my ribs — that cage
Of celebration shot to knees, inhale,
All the children puffs
Of smoke rolled off
The streets We bow, exhale
You shoot and shoot
And shoot us every Time
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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