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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Davon Clark is a writer and photographer based out of Philadelphia. He finished his Bachelor's in English in 2017, where he was a 2017 CUPSI Co-Champion and grassroot member of the creative writing organization, Penn State WORDS. Flowers and the other little things in life keep him creating things.
Sunlight
Say this: a black boy stops
Glowing blue in the moonlight.
Wakes up rose gold tinted in a San Junipero beach house,
Gets to love
Like a white woman
Instead of having to love one,
Ties his silkies in front
Without niggas from school
Yankin on it when they jump him,
Eats a feast any time his mouth
Opens,
Whines a police car siren
Into a reggaeton remix
And dances, and dances, and dances,
And puts hands on a man
And it does not hurt
A lot of my writing lately has been in this middle ground between Moonlight (2016) and the "San Junipero" episode of Black Mirror (2016). Chiron was the first multimedia character I watched as an adult that experienced similar things to me growing up in regards to his sexuality. Within the same week I saw San Junipero for the first time and wondered what that episode would look like if a Black man found the same kind of rose-gold tinted world where he gets to love how he might want to.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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