Sean Glatch | In the Heart’s Center | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Sean Glatch is a queer poet and educator in New York City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Foglifter, Ninth Letter, Strange Horizons, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and elsewhere. Sean currently runs the creative writing school Writers.com and the forthcoming card game Poemancer.

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Sean Glatch

In the Heart’s Center

Exit wound / Scar tissue / Chamber walls / Wet / Sarcophagus / Esophagus / Suffocate / Wet / Lemon juice / Salted wound / Lemon juice / Lemon / Canary / Cream / Fluorescent / Bee / Marigold / Violet / Daffodil sunrise / Sienna sunset / Slobbering / humid want / clouds / Rust numbed / Nimbuses lusting / Over Queens / City skylines / City boys / Faceless boys / Wanting boys / Every boy / Ceramic night / The busts of boys / Posed / Boys melted / Down to flesh / Puddled boys / Bodies / Bodies worn / Bodies shared / Bodies blazing / Bodies faceless / Broken fascia / Boys like headlights / Chronic headaches / Crumpled foreskin / Rumpelstiltskin / Crumpled pages / Crinkled poems / Crooked posture / Apophasis / Anabasis / Katabasis / Sisyphus / The boulder I loved / The hill that broke my fall /

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