ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Mary Crow has published three books of poems and is working on a new collection, Difficulty in Securing the River. Her individual poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including A Public Space, Notre Dame Review, American Poetry Review, New Madrid, Hotel Amerika.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
June 4, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
June 4, 2019
Getting Away
I do not know how long I’ll last beside
this lagoon — placid, almost lovely
in its very artificiality, carved from land
stolen from Bedouins,
now studded with turquoise lagoons
of different sizes, some stone-lined,
where I can’t imagine them swimming.
How can such nomads live
imprisoned in peach-colored villas,
where cultivated palms waft green banners
in sultry breezes — a relief, no doubt
from swirling sand’s attacks —
and better than refuge in gray buildings
along inner-city expressways where air’s dirty
with shadows, where footsteps echo
like the steps of ghosts. I can’t say
how long I’ll remain at this lagoon
remembering tear gas and burning tires.
My body feels like someone else’s, someone
who might wander through this maze
of island paths, roundabouts, right angles,
sit in an arbor on a bench to unbend,
as darkness slowly absorbs the lagoons’ green,
and mauve shadows float over the water
in a dim phosphorescence.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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