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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Cody Stetzel is a Seattle resident working as managing editor for Five:2:One Magazine and a staff book reviewer for Glass Poetry Press. He received his Masters in Creative Writing for Poetry from the University of California at Davis. His writing can be found previously in Boston Accent Literature, Aster(ix) Journal, and more.
Also by Cody Stetzel:
Dragonfly’s Sense
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 28, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 28, 2019
Wade Hampton the Third Does Not Lose a Wink of Sleep Until the Day the Bears Come for His Dachshund
Of course evil lives unpunished. Punishment is a myth
the neutral use for excuse — their ambiguity
like justice, freedom, hope… lall of those massive
ideas.
Of course,
he stood over an alighted nation with
a bucket of water, drinking.
Still, the moon winks at the naive archivist
wondering which turns in history re-calibrated
our morality, a spectrum to be tuned.
So when we kick the blueberry bush, disconsolable
and violent, remember these are repercussions
not choices. The only will is the will
to live — the only crime criminalization.
Remember that after he was removed from war
he began anew: that some are born with
this compelling urge to harm and that
we should not accept this urge.
There must be other means.
Placate the true magnetic wilderness here —
Begin anew. The whole world is broken.
There is no promise of repair.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
