ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Vismai Rao’s poems appear or are forthcoming in the Indianapolis Review, RHINO, Salamander, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Parentheses Journal, Kissing Dynamite, & The Shore. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Orison Anthology. She lives in India.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
In the Aftermath
-->
Poets Resist
Edited by Christine Taylor
January 31, 2020
Edited by Christine Taylor
January 31, 2020
Styrofoam Morning
The colors of dawn sputter in sky’s Teflon skillet,
sun’s yolk, a bright acrylic spilt across
the horizon. Avian trills erupt
like bubble wrap bursting, morning swallows
boomerang against polybag clouds —
In Chennai a 450-year banyan tree meets
its match in an empty Coke bottle. Locals
place incense & camphor beneath its trunk:
Holy tree! You who have seen more sunsets
than any of us —
A menagerie of made things obscures
the vanishing point, creations outlasting
creators, who in the end
inherits the earth?
A boy snips a tiny triangle off a milk packet:
a glass of calcium for his bones while
for miles & miles an ocean hums itself
awake — a galaxy of glittering triangles
the sky mistakes for dragonflies —
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
All contents © the author.
All contents © the author.
