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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Dominik Parisien is a disabled, bisexual, French Canadian. He is the author of the chapbook We, Old Young Ones and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Arc Poetry Magazine and various other journals. He is also the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of several anthologies, including The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, which won the Shirley Jackson Award, and the forthcoming The Mythic Dream. His latest editorial project is Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry. Dominik lives in Toronto.
Also by Dominik Parisien:
After convulsing in public
Card game with disabled friends
The Eganville Healer’s Compound
Poets Resist
Edited by Samantha Duncan
March 19, 2019
Edited by Samantha Duncan
March 19, 2019
other body prayer
o
let us be like you
flawed
failures
singular
& successful
none of us
a credit
or exception
stand-in
or paragon
enough
to be
unremarkable
& common
as a cold
enough
to make monoliths
meaninglessness
o
let us be like you
atoms
orbiting each other
subjects to the laws
of gravity
& attraction
chemical
& true
to our nature
o
let us be
let us be
let us be
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
