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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are Elliptic (Yellow Flag Press, 2016), Revenant (Blue Horse Press, 2016), and No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, fall 2018). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 29, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 29, 2019
Augury
— Queen Bess Island
Pelicans glide on wind currents,
infinities of loops,
long sweeps over the Gulf,
short passes near their nests.
The island below them
rings a ghost of itself,
washes out with every heavy wind,
each wave
pushed through by storms.
Two birds in air
for each one on shore,
in constant rhythm.
The cadence of their lives
tells stories
in flattened shore grass, single eggs in sand —
movement and birth and loss.
But what should they know
of erosion? Togetherness?
Space? More water around them
with fewer fish to eat? And when a barge
full of dredged silt beaches itself
onto their sand to fill in the island’s
shadows, how long will it take
to settle all flight?
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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