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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Michael Akuchie is an Igbo-Esan born emerging poet currently studying English and Literature at the University of Benin, Nigeria. An Orison Anthology nominee, his poems have previously appeared on The Mantle, Willawaw, Collective Unrest, Impossible Task, Anomaly, TERSE and elsewhere. He is a Contributing Editor at Barren Magazine.
Poets Resist
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 13, 2019
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 13, 2019
Don’t Convince Me About The Glory Of War
We said there isn’t any worse to come
— Dunya Mikhail
The night is three hours old, I skim through
its fleshly paleness to saddle myself with a babel of thought.
In the distance, cries pile atop each other
as terror claims additional territory.
That constant retort of a rifle, that whistle
of an air-stiffening bullet, that groan
that follows a body toppled over the earth.
All of this is an endless country of desolation.
Men orchestrate battles with hearts soon to flood with trauma.
What’s left of a war vet is the echo of his own nightmares.
This war is not mine until I, too, bow
to dress a grave with flowers.
This grief is unfamiliar until I reproduce
one famed burst of agony.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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