ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Mirabel (Avleen K Mokha) is a Montreal-based poet. Mirabel's first full-length poetry collection The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is forthcoming from Guernica Editions (2023). Her chapbook Dream Ffragments (Cactus Press 2020) received critical acclaim from The League of Canadian Poets and PRISM International. She was also the 2019 winner of the Peterson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing. Originally from Mumbai, India, Mirabel has studied English Literature and Linguistics at McGill University, where she is currently pursuing clinical studies in Speech-Language Pathology. Mirabel's poems have appeared in carte blanche, Yolk Literary, and Dream Pop.
Also by Mirabel:
Two Poems
Illegible
Bedroom floor lore says they spoke
long ago but never learned to read.
Uncombed they sat squat on trains,
dead already by mistake. In Delhi
I heard a woman scream for the engine
in us. In Montreal I heard a man lose
his eyes on a walk to the park:
Dogged, minds shorn of hope,
they live out their lives mechanically.
The myth of disbelief sometimes
catches up to me. At least
they got, the illiterate lot,
a train for their dead-not-yet.
They give their bodies unprompted
to an illegible ache, pacify
the feeling that only takes.
All concurred the murders occurred,
but no one was there
to write it down.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published quarterly by Glass Poetry Press.
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