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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Leah Umansky is the author of two full length collections, The Barbarous Century, and Domestic Uncertainties among others. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Thrush Poetry Journal, Plume, The New York Times, POETRY, Guernica, The Bennington Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Rhino, and Pleiades. She is resisting the tyrant with her every move. She can be found at @lady_bronte on twitter and @leah.umansky on IG.
Also by Leah Umansky:
The Barbarous Century
I threw in an extra fuck
Desire [even in the age of the tyrant]
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Alternate Ending of the Tyrant
Millions of Perfect Crimes are Committed Every Day By No One
Stranger Is
Of Tyrant
We are made to persist. That is how we know who we are.
— a fortune cookie
1.
I fetch the rage
2.
I fetch the rage
in chaos,
in the heel of
this butchering,
in the squeezing
of the heart
listening
(or not)
to his word
to his garbage
is all lies
I won’t
3.
he is an open fire
4.
the anger unsettles
the heart
turns to
to to
to cowering
to fowl
to flight
into air
into glass
blasts
us all
into slick
into sick
into darkness
5.
who needs loyalty
when all is pounded
into fatigue
I cannot reiterate this enough:
the past
isn’t dead.
embrace
these rough edges
the corrosive doors
the tipping of lies
the tangle of webs
or thorns
or tweets
I can’t
6.
Jimmy Kimmel says
it is like someone
has opened a window
to hell.
I
I
I
I
can’t sink this rage
it stills
it stills
it stills itself into flame
I
can’t watch the news anymore
I
can barely stay positive
not now
not now
not now
(he can’t make me say,
never)
never you mind
the rise to rage
is not of fury
but of tyrant
of tyrant
7.
I will turn
I will turn my gaze
away from the flames
I will turn my gaze
upward
skybound
& wide
8.
gather
gather your good
gather your good appetite
gather
your filling
gather
your filling of
hate
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