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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Jimin Lee is a high school writer from Seoul, South Korea. She has been named a 2019 Finalist in Writing (Poetry) by the National YoungArts Foundation and recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The Penn Review, and Hollins University. Her works appear in or are forthcoming from The Penn Review, Polyphony Lit, Watershed Review, Crashtest Magazine, The Daphne Review, and elsewhere. Jimin is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Ideate Review and an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.
Homeland Elegy
When they slaughter our country,
our skin turns a shade of dark martyred
by the moon. Worship begins
and ends with a name: a weapon
for country, a way to remember
that all bodies spell war.
I mistake their symbol for a dead
crow’s eye: bloodshot, forever staring.
My native tongue is rife with hymns
praising the crows. Tar spit churns
in my stomach with every syllable.
I invent teeth to murder the crows.
In another dream, I cremate the crows
and send them back to their country.
*Note: The first person narrative in this piece is told from a fictional perspective.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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