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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Hannah Schoettmer is a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Butcher Papers, a youth-focused literary magazine, which can be found online at butcherpapers.org. She has been recognized by TeenInk, Write the World, the Scholastic Art and Writing awards, and the American High School Poets, among others. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in 24hr Neon Mag, Royal Rose, Crepe and Penn, and elsewhere. She serves as a regular contributor for Marias at Sampaguitas and MID-HEAVEN MAGAZINE.
Also by Hannah Schoettmer:
A Small American Peninsula Town
color of the sea
thought exercise in the short time left pre-war
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 12, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 12, 2019
generational dissonance
we say when we are older we want to own a little hut
in rural Peru or Croatia. we don’t know why
we want this but right now we are
together in this big city that smells
like piss and sweat and heat even at night.
we are counting the bullets in their bodies and
drinking hard cider our rich friend stole
from her also rich but absent father and
dancing in the streets every June
but hiding in the shadowy places the rest of the time.
right now we are scratching reminders
into our arms with Bic pens and biting
into fatty street vendor hot dogs and
feeling the grease drip down our chins.
I currently have this pore clogging
along the grease trail — I can feel the pimple sitting up
pushing towards the surface
for no reason besides spoiling the pictures
we wanted to take later, except
I can just edit it out with the patch tool in Facetune
so it’s okay. I eat the rest of the hot dog.
right now we are enjoying the city because
we know it won’t last — there’s this plague
seeping through the streets and we’re out of alcohol and
also there’s a glacier
melting so fast it’s cutting new rivers
into dirt just a few thousand miles away
This poem is a look at the my mentality regarding the future, as a young person. We are living in a time fraught with this looming dread of the future, caused by guns and climate change and a million other things. This undercurrent of unease is like a constant low hum that young people ignore, but still constantly experience and are aware of in their day to day lives..
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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