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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ben Togut is a queer poet and singer-songwriter living in New York City. He has been recognized by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and The Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity. He has work published or forthcoming in Rust + Moth, DIALOGIST and Bitterzoet Mag, and will attend Wesleyan University in the fall.
Poets Resist
Edited by Logan February
July 24, 2019
Edited by Logan February
July 24, 2019
caldera
the world was on fire
and nobody turned
to notice. that summer,
I was numb & sexless,
blooming in spite of myself.
Everywhere, chiseled gods
parading, pride flags draped
over glittering torsos. I painted
my nails yet refused
to be one of them, my body
never pale currency to barter
for their affection. the world
was on fire and I didn’t know
what to do with myself.
I watched by the window
as life blazed anew:
a child’s laughter unspooling
in time lapse, summer days
lengthening, unraveling
in a curtain of smoke,
my loneliness a pink cloud
hovering above me.
This poem is a poem about being sad and queer during Pride Month.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
