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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Anuja Ghimire was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. A Pushcart and Best
of the Net nominee, she's published in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Nepal. She
lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and two little girls and writes poetry. In the day, she works as an editor/publisher in the e-learning industry.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
The Summer of Endless Rain
Saffron
Poets Resist
Edited by Kolleen Carney Hoepfner
May 28, 2018
Edited by Kolleen Carney Hoepfner
May 28, 2018
A humanitarian walks into a village in Nepal
How the old man pulls his trouser higher
to hold in the elastic band
children’s hide
and a flattened tower
behind him two boys
not yet extinguished
on the floor
The sun was too dim to cast a shadow
when he raised a steady hand
to block any light
we knocked on his door
and his spotted skin opened it in Kartikey
the man, who took laurels from all the land, was once a boy
who remembered milk in the back of his throat
before colostrum lacquered tongue dried
once upon a time, only sixty-one years ago, there lived a baby
his mother gave him lilies
he came in spring
I wrote this poem about Peter Dalglish, a Canadian man found with two young boys in his room and arrested for sexual crimes against children.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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