ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kimberly Ann Southwick is the founder and editor in chief of the literary arts journal Gigantic Sequins. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and is a PhD candidate in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has two poetry chapbooks, every song by Patsy Cline (dancing girl press, February 2014) & Efs & Vees (Hyacinth Girl Press, October 2015). Her work was a finalist for the 2016 Yemassee Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist for the Beecher's Magazine 2016 Poetry Prize.
CUTLASS
in heaven do you get to be your best self or your favorite self
maybe a mythic version of yourself
do you come as you are or as you were
me I want to be a statue version of me holding a sword and an ice cream cone
if they say I can keep only my brain or only my body I still want both
send me to the campfire in hell with a bag of marshmallows if that doesn't fly
on this ninety-degree spring day
I can't remember if I prefer sweating in my car windows up
or holding a cold grapefruit to my cheek in the supermarket produce aisle
"CUTLASS" is part of a chapbook-length series called CHEVRON, which I wrote (weirdly quickly) during a transitional period. The uncertainty of the future, its newness, I only appreciate once I've arrived, but imagining it when impending or in progress makes me ask a whole lot of questions. This poem, like a lot of the poems within that series, reflects that.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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