ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Lip Manegio is queer, nonbinary poet based in Boston where they are working towards a BFA in creative writing at Emerson College. Their work has appeared in Flypaper Magazine, the minnesota review, Tin House, and elsewhere. They are the author of We’ve All Seen Helena.
Also by Lip Manegio:
We’ve All Seen Helena
failed ode to justin bieber, as pictured in the poster I tore out of tiger beat and kept taped to the ceiling above my bed for all of sixth grade
2 Poems
selections & redactions from ‘100 Bible Verses About Teeth’
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives,
who brought you up out of the land
they cry: “We have swallowed her!”
O God, break the teeth in their mouth
the / man, whose / spears and arrow / tongue / sharp sword
His eyes are darker than wine / seeking someone to devour
I broke the fangs / and made him drop his prey
Like vinegar / and smoke to the eyes,
I asked you / to cast it out
(its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness)
the desire / will perish
cower in ashes —
In / place there will be weeping and gnashing
I / had rib / in / mouth
hair like women's hair, and / you may be healed
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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