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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Alexa Mergen lives on a boat in the Sacramento Delta with her husband and dog. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and has also lived in cities and small towns in California, Michigan, Nevada and West Virginia. Her poems have been published in many journals including Inlandia, Turtle Island Quarterly and Virginia Quarterly Review, are anthologized in several collections, and one was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Also by Alexa Mergen:
Child of the Wandering Sea
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 20, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 20, 2019
Provisions
Preserve means set aside
like jars on pantry shelves bright
with tomatoes and berries picked
in warm days for cold ones.
In wildness is preservation
Thoreau said. I say
intimacy saves the world —
creatures in burrows, beneath waves,
flowers fruiting without witness.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
