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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Cameron Alexander Lawrence is a poet and visual artist from the American southwest. His poems appear in West Branch, The Florida Review, Image, The Shallow Ends, Structo, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Ruminate, and elsewhere. He keeps busy writing and painting in his home studio in Decatur, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and four young children.
Horizon
In the blackberry, he tastes the bitterness of the blossom.
In the cream, a memory of the hay fields in Normandy.
The way a desire begins and ripens years later
into an unsolvable problem. Ten years since
driving on that French country road after a rain,
hectares divided by the mournful repose of sunflowers.
What he felt about his distance from the cities of America,
the bolts and bricks falling from his clothes. He drove
and thought it was the hills he longed to hold,
and then not the hills but what was beyond them.
Landscape meeting landscape, a topography
ending in water. How the sea mist felt on his skin,
standing on the rocky coast with all of Europe behind him.
What did he want then, the ocean or what comes after?
What did he want if not the promise of other shores?
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
