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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Rachel Aguirre is a Spanish teacher from San Antonio, Texas. She attended Kenyon Review's 2025 Summer Poetry Workshop, and her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, The Summerset Review, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. In her free time, she likes to cook fare from Veracruz and locate the resident swan in the small, nearby lake.
Also by Rachel Aguirre:
The Suárez Sisters Ride at Mission San José, 1948
Still Life: Túxpan de los Bellos Atardeceres, Veracruz, 1963
January 21, 2026
Ars Poetica: San Antonio, Texas on January 21, 2025
Rare snowfall. The stiff ground
dusted
with the stuff.
Ungloved fingers drag
across car hoods,
slick sidewalk ,
street gutter,
gather
what cream they can
I wrote this poem a year ago today, while attending the Kenyon Review’s virtual workshop. Each week we had to write a new poem in response to a prompt, and the prompt for that week was (you guessed it) to write an Ars Poetica. The form was frustratingly elusive to me. I was struggling to find an entry into the poem when we had this scant flurry (the only kind of snow we ever get here) and inspiration came all at once, as rare for me as snowfall itself.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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