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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Tarik Dobbs is a queer, Lebanese-American poet from Dearborn, MI. He is the winner of a fellowship and two awards in the 2018 Michigan Hopwood Program. His poems recently appear in Diode and are forthcoming in Tinderbox, Argot, and Glass. He draws inspiration from stories of his mother and grandmother.
Also by Tarik Dobbs:
Two Poems
Dogs
The imam said only one
for protection
Me, a dog / as guard
as dirty / as inedible, dishonorable
Take me into the above-ground swimming pool
wash me away
Find a thing call nijis,
kalb, haram,
My mother picks up the phone
drops me off at father’s home
two sets of 11 dogs, Ayb, ya Allah
Neighbors call police,
backyard’s dug out, sudden jerk
pool full of muck, leaves
out for a walk
sidewalks start & end
just slabs at mushy green
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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