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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Isabelle Jia is a poeta from San Francisco, CA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alexandria Quarterly, The Blueshift Journal, Rising Phoenix Review and many more. Jia has been recognized as a California Arts Scholar, by the Walt Whitman National Poetry Foundation, and Hollins University. Currently, she works for The Speakeasy Project, The Ellis Review, and Bitter Melon Magazine.
still life
soft girl
you know the buzz of cable
doesn’t muffle anything.
your mother’s hair is ripping
like the sound of
body bags and goodbyes.
you are too young to think
of ways to fit your green flesh
in a grave.
you don’t just take a girl
try to set her on fire
&burn.
there’s a certain glee that comes with
leaving, this is how it goes —
yes he hits us like a drum
but no you are not ashen.
you are picking your lip
like you know how to have a voice
but don’t want to use it because
you haven’t learned to savor the lostness
that comes with growing up.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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