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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press), and A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Menacing Hedge, Whale Road Review, Prelude, Hermeneutic Chaos, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband.
Vanishing
After the moth's wings beat
to death. After the veins on
my wrist protruded, asking
for air. After a man spoke
faster than a girl's body
could run. After I read
the carvings beneath my
blouse. After I found her
there: resting at her
bone's end. This is a dream
I didn't know I needed: when
our bones look like
they might never wake. Picture
this: listening to the sound
of rain on pavement — no, on
grass, on leaves: let's talk
of all the sounds I'm not
familiar with — all
the sounds my body dreams of
being familiar with: the feel
of mist on the veins on
my wrist. Blood
thirsty. Wings moving
in a lamp-light
illusion: beating against
the walls of my chest: breathing.
A small body rising
and falling. The body: a living
thing. The body: finally
coming home.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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