ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Alison Palmer's work appears in FIELD, Bear Review, River Styx, Bellevue Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Poet's Billow's Atlantis Award, and her debut collection, Aren't We Lovely in Our Suits of Armor, was a semifinalist for Persea Books: Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2017. Her chapbook, The Need for Hiding, was published by Dancing Girl Press in spring 2018.
Then It Became Another Night
I wait in a blind-drawn apartment
for the last great storm.
My nightclothes forget themselves
at the end of the bed; I curl up
next to them.
Hand to the mouth of a sleeve, to
the empty neck, the front where
buttons should be.
I am the outside of my life.
A small child pushes through the soil
of my bed.
Which palm is softest? Which
is excused from work?
She is nothing like me, extends
her fabric arms toward my face;
they catch fire.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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