ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kristin Ryan is a poet working towards healing, and full sleeves of tattoos. She is the recipient of the 2017 Nancy D. Hargrove Editor's Prize in Poetry from Jabberwock Review. Her poems have been featured in Neat Magazine, The Penwood Review, and The Violet Hour Magazine with work forthcoming in Jabberwock Review. She is currently working on her MFA in Poetry at Ashland University and works in the mental health field.
Also by Kristin Ryan:
Hurricane of Grace and Bones
Dissociative Amnesia
(I can't forget , never)
( ) ( ) ( )
( ) ( doors) ( doors) ( )
(half washed ) ( )
( crushed) ( smell of )
(first ) ( ) (splinters) ( )
(hum of ) ( pants ) ( ground)
(then ) ( ) ( )
( scratching of ) (a man )
(alone ) ( , wasps)
( last) (our nightlight) ( ) ( )
( the counter) ( in underwear)
(hands) ( ) (murmur) (shhh)
( ) (please) ( ) ( ) (no)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
(stop)
"Dissociative Amnesia" is the second poem in a sequence that follows the speaker through a series of triggers as bits and pieces of her past begin to surface. Using blank space in the parentheses allowed me to play with and push the idea of how traumatic memories are stored in the body and slowly processed.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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