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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Gardner Dorton (he/him) is a poet living in Tennessee with his partner and yellow lab. His poems have appeared before in journals like The Florida Review, Rattle, The Greensboro Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Stone Fruit, was published in 2021 by Glass Poetry Press, and his debut collection, If I Were God I Would Also Start With Light, is forthcoming September 2024 with Thirty West Publishing House.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Stone Fruit
Love Poem Featuring Ton 618
Inside the Steeple
I pluck my dog’s butt tufts in the yard after scrolling the news while my husband reads horror novels on the porch
Gold asphodels unattached to soil
like onward lanterns Seventeen Dead in Flood, Tennessee I made them
with the excess of a life
happy cleaning happy They’re Calling It An Economic Disaster
on the grass no urgent meaning how funny its
mass A Lone Gunman is not even a mass how funny
my husband thinks it is to not let
the animal urinate in peace I love it
the sincerity of cleaning the sincerity Thousands Displaced of
a listless moment you could never
get me to hate this life you
could never Repeal loosen my grip
of it a sunset scattered
around my toes it feels perfect
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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