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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Anne Evered is a writer and data scientist living in Philadelphia, PA.
Poets Resist
Edited by Logan February
July 8, 2019
Edited by Logan February
July 8, 2019
Whale
Ninety pounds of plastic waste,
They find in the cavity of a creature
With a heart the size of an oil drum.
Confetti of pieces built on decades of thirst
Well, how big is the stomach then? I wonder.
And the gust of the flames is pulled in diagonal plume
East, so we can almost hear the bellowing.
“Dad, how did it even live this long?”
Rice sacks and snack bags and nylon rope
Tangled:
We shovel it all into mouths and homes
and whale mouths,
and whale homes.
This poem is inspired by, and uses an interview quotation from, a National Geographic article by Alejandra Borunda about a young whale that died in the Davao Gulf and was found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside its belly.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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