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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a California transplant living in Portland, Oregon. In their writing, they hope to explore human-nature relation and deconstruct binaries that cast humankind in opposition to the natural world. Their work appears in publications such as Adroit Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, and the Cincinnati Review.
October 8, 2025
with my back to the city
So let me run back
into the golden arms
of the hills.
I remember. An ember. Grass
willing as gasoline.
So I will meet you
at the summit. Dirt
in my stomach —
gardens of it.
Kiss me, then. I’ll burn
for anything.
I’ll pick you blackberries.
I’ll thank the thorns.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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