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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Emily Banks is the author of Mother Water, forthcoming from Lynx House Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Fourth River, Superstition Review, New South, Cimarron Review, Yemassee, and other journals. She lives in Atlanta, where she is a doctoral candidate at Emory University.
Poets Resist
Edited by Benjamin Rozzi
April 30, 2019
Edited by Benjamin Rozzi
April 30, 2019
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I remember racing
in elementary school, our vast
public school playground like a vacant lot,
its sagging fence buckling in the wind.
Standing on the white line, bracing
one leg strong and tense, twitching
for takeoff, I barely heard the other girls
cheering behind me as my ears
anticipated Go. Back then,
I was one of the only girls
who could beat boys. It didn’t last long.
I don’t mean that they started beating me.
I mean I stopped running.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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