ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Emily Robidoux, a 23 year old aspiring poet and a recent graduate of Smith College, she currently resides in Rhode Island. She has been in love with writing and reading poetry for the better part of her short life and in her writing she attempts to use precise language to relay the joy, and trauma, the mundane and the exceptional experiences of living as a young LGBT+ woman in a place and time that can lack understanding. In addition to writing, Emily likes to spend her time creating visual art. She discovered Glass this past year and is now fully hooked. She considers it an honor to be able to be a part of of such a beautiful, special, and current publication.
A Lifecycle for the Aquatic
Your head bobbed, hollow, a body full of lungs.
Remember: the crouch & touch of looking at the same insect,
spearing it on the point of a stick, drowning it in a puddle.
Remember: the white wade of afternoon, watching a spill of sunlight
soak into the black sponge of evening.
Remember: slung over a shoulder, splayed in the sand,
breath & no breath. Remember: the slow slide of foam-tipped
tide, the drag and pulse of something alive and holding, softly, a thousand fish.
You were a fish, too, arms tucked up, folded like thin paper,
a spot for the gills below your ear. You were alive, too, and then speared
on the point of a stick.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
All contents © the author.
All contents © the author.
