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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Karin L. Frank is an award-winning author who writes both poems and short stories. Although nurtured by the research and fantasies of both U. S. coasts, she eventually settled on a farm near Kansas City. Her work has been published in prestigious literary journals, genre magazines with international readerships and anthologies in the United States and abroad.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 31, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 31, 2019
Awakening to a New Model of Political Power
after David Glatt’s art piece White Men in Suits, 2002
One day thunder crashes
at the tenuous threshold
of our dreams. Lightning flashes
behind the sunrise (unsettling
portents of change).
Long overdue for upheaval,
the elbow in our gut, the gun
to our heads shakes loose.
The ladder of power slips
in its moorings, rattles
out-of-control and upends.
That day the aged and infirm
roll across the top of heaps
in wheelchairs powered
by the strength of their needs.
Triumphant smiles blossom
on all denigrated skin tones.
Kids identify a rainbow of genders,
choose the one they like the best
and become its pronoun.
Disabled and pregnant occupy
seats reserved only for them
while three-piece-suited C.E.O.s
screech, “The dollar is almighty,”
from the back of the bus.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
