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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Yumna Dagher (she/her/hers) is a poet, archivist, visual artist, and community / cultural organizer whose work explores placemaking, spatial-environmental justice — and the entanglements of food, land, family, and power. She is interested in the intersections of literary and environmental storytelling and has worked on community garden initiatives, refugee resettlement programs, and oral history projects. Her work has been published previously in Josephine Quarterly and Rowayat.
Also by Lisa Zerkle:
mint
October 29, 2025
watermelon
we grow
them in the
sun
with doting
names ‘ babydoll’,
‘sweet sugar peach’
they marble and
yawn in neat curls
we stand
always ready to
hack one open
but don’t wait
for the flesh
to drop sweet
for the milky
beam of
white or
listen to the
hollow drum
beat
my friend
machete in arm
lifts,
swings —
the
sunbird tucks
it’s wings
small, shy
into
blood sky
under hebron snow
and then
hill. valley. hill.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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