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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Amanda Galvan Huynh has received scholarships/fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She was a winner of a 2016 AWP Intro Journal Project Award and a finalist for the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in the following journals: RHINO Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Silk Road Review, The Boiler Journal, and others.
Only One of Us Can Breathe in Space
tell me my fears are paranoia
taking the shape of my shadow
dense as a night’s sky in an afternoon’s sun
my shadow
tracking onto someone’s lawn
trespassing onto someone’s lawn
because we are always trespassers
waiting for hands to reach out to us
to catch one of us by the neck
of our identities
white America’s hands
latch on and wring until our skins both burn
Let me go
and they hold on so tight
that they’re no longer holding on
to me
but onto the idea that only one of us can breathe
in space
only one of us belongs
for a moment his fear of dying
aligns with mine
as he reaches for his gun
a bullet asteroids into the Earth
surrounded by teens — he’s pulling himself out
of fear, he’s blackholing me into it
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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