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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Despy Boutris’s writing has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, The Journal, Copper Nickel, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches at the University of Houston, works as Assistant Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.
Also by Despy Boutris:
The Signs as Landscapes Where I Pondered My Mortality Baptism Psalm With Passing Train
The Signs as Landscapes Where I Pondered My Mortality Baptism Psalm With Passing Train
Poets Resist
Edited by Len Lawson
August 14, 2020
Edited by Len Lawson
August 14, 2020
Real
For the first time, I saw a woman
love another woman firsthand.
I saw that it was more
than a daydream — more
than something I had imagined
or heard of, but a real reality
and possible possibility that I could
possibly really experience. Maybe.
Flowers flew from my mouth,
bloomed in midair. Someone once
said Anything is possible, and I called
them a filthy liar. It doesn’t matter
whom you love, as long as you
are happy, said no one ever.
Love is love, no one said —
at least not in this tiny town.
But as I thought of you sprawled
on the grass in the afternoon heat,
skin everywhere, me falling
for your musician-like fingers,
your half-painted toes, I thought
maybe you’ll let me trace the lines
on your palm, let me
kiss the honey of your hand.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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