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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Raye Hendrix is a poet from Alabama. Raye earned a BA and MA in English from Auburn University and is an MFA candidate at the University of Texas in Austin, where she was a finalist for both the 2018 Keene Prize for Literature and the 2018 Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing, and where she serves as the Online Content and Web Editor for Bat City Review. Raye was an honorable mention for poetry in both Southern Humanities Review's Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York in 2014 and AWP's 2015 Intro Journals Project, and received grants to attend the Juniper Summer Writing Institute in 2016. Raye's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, The Pinch, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere.
Poets Resist
Edited by Cody Stetzel
August 21, 2018
Edited by Cody Stetzel
August 21, 2018
This Is Not A Spell This Is A Promise
if I awoke one morning as a witch // I’d wish
that men’s discomfort with menstruation
was as uncomfortable as menstruation
& it would be so // imagine: at the CVS
dressed in sweatpants & bloat you pass
the male cashier a box of tampons // super
plus because today your vagina is like
the elevator in The Shining // is like
Beyoncé’s open doors in Lemonade
& when he ceases to look you in the eye
he also ceases standing // folds himself
in half behind the counter clutching
non-existent eggs // & though
you don’t work there you remind him
with a smile the Midol’s on aisle 4 // but
the truth is like Beyoncé I woke up like this
already: bewitched & bleeding & yes
there’s the magic: without need
for incantation my body is changed // object
to objection // a cocked & ready
weapon of unease
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
