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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Kyle Laws is based out of the Arts Alliance Studios Community in Pueblo, CO. Her collections include This Town: Poems of Correspondence with Jared Smith (Liquid Light Press, 2017); So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press, 2015); Wildwood (Lummox Press, 2014); My Visions Are As Real As Your Movies, Joan of Arc Says to Rudolph Valentino (Dancing Girl Press, 2013); and George Sand's Haiti (co-winner of Poetry West's 2012 award). Granted two residencies in poetry from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), she is one of eight members of the Boiler House Poets who perform and study at the museum. She is the editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.
Also by Kyle Laws:
This Town: Poems of Correspondence with Jared Smith
So Bright to Blind
Wildwood
My Visions Are As Real As Your Movies, Joan of Arc Says to Rudolph Valentino
Sea Solo
—Flute, Christine Lanza
Trill close to shore —
what rests in a wave tossed
in the bed not a bed but in the moment
when you don't know if you're coming back up,
whether this will be your last wake
as sand fills the bottom of the two-piece
that eddies between hips,
the concave like interior of shell,
rush caught and trapped in the curl
as it twists the way a conch will
as sea grass tendrils its shell,
the one outside your reach
as you're turned over and around,
belly scraping a bottom littered with what's broken,
what you'd bring home and put on a shelf
if only this tumble, this whine of water would slow
as it comes close to the wrack line.
"Sea Solo" was composed listening to a flute at a house concert of avant-garde music in Pueblo, CO, home of an enclave of improvisational musicians led by Bob Marsh and Sandra Yolles. I've had the opportunity to collaborate with them for performances. They are now artists in residence where I have a studio not far from the river walk. Having grown up on the Delaware Bay of the Jersey shore, much of the music I heard in the quiet of the off seasons was the wash of waves on shore.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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