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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Christine Taylor, a multiracial English teacher and librarian, resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. She serves as a reader and contributing editor at OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Her work appears in Modern Haiku, Presence, Menacing Hedge, and The Paterson Literary Review among others.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
When They Come
Friendly Reminder, A Zuihitsu
Petal: A Zuihitsu
To My Fellow Clinic Escorts: Englewood, NJ
Open Wound
Somewhere between here and the edge of town
the brook flows from the mountains,
cuts a meandering line through the valley;
schools of minnows dart around rocks
and Canada geese nest along its edges.
It’s been this way since the Lenape
inhabited this land.
You take those tentative steps to the bank
to find that the water has receded, dried up
in your absence, leaving behind stones worn
smooth, sun-baked moss, and a single dead fish
who waited too long to follow the water.
Remember, in this, you had a choice. You still do.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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