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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Jessica Lynn Suchon is a poet, essayist, and women's rights advocate. She recently received her MFA from Southern Illinois University where she was recognized by The Academy of American Poets. Jessica was named a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow by Aspen Words, a partner of The Aspen Institute and was a finalist for the 2017 Indiana Review Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yemassee, Hermeneutic Chaos, Radar Poetry, Connotation Press, decomP magazinE, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Rust + Moth, and A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault, among others.
Also by Jessica Lynn Suchon:
Six Poems and an Interview
Because Everything I Do That Summer Is a
Metaphor for Abortion
Foothills
Undressing for a Personal Apocalypse
We wear our callused skin
to bed, both of us armored
and starving. Feed me the honey
swelter of your skin, burnt
sugar iris, your shattered shell
of breastbone. I am sorry
for my mouth, tongue coated
in gunpowder, for knotting
hunger in our beggar chests.
You kiss my forehead
when you think I am
asleep. Never love me
in that familiar way.
I know the way I gift my body,
would let you harvest my ribs
and crack them open with hushed
hands. There is nothing for you
but salt crust and marrow.
There is barely enough for me.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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