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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ayla Maisey is from Portland, Oregon, but currently based in Chicago, Illinois. She writes quiet poetry and loud lyric essays. Her work has been published in Kenyon Review, Habitat, Brainchild, and The Lab Review.
[ the truth about ]
dye-wed, wondrous —
the high-noon wedding,
dewed and bound,
chirp and wan
i’ll take coyotes, they tell the truth
i’ll take a wolf-like culling of the mind
tooth for tooth, my language down,
ruin could be
theistic.
their bodied high, their teeming low,
a cry you know before you feel it —
eyelids lowered,
but not yet bored.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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