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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Peter H. Michaels' poetry is forthcoming from or has appeared in Nimrod, Poet Lore, Barren Magazine, and other places. He is a staff poetry reader for The Adroit Journal.
Also by Peter H. Michaels:
A Blow Mold Christmas
On Thanksgiving I Press Turkey Patties Into My George Foreman Grill
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Pecos Bill, Awaiting Sue's Return
The Self-Titled City
exports mainly sound and air
guitar. They churn axeless windmill
strokes, throw their mimed frets
behind their backs and feint speed pick
with sound teeth, point their invisible
Flying Vs to the crowd — you wrap
two hands around one of mine
as we watch them scissor-kick
through long hair whips, a pursed-lip scooped
hind duck walk slide, and watch a front
man’s charisma form like snowflakes
with or without calloused digits. Held
within the province’s capital
is the densest metal. Every thousand
square kilometers of earth yields
twenty-eight extreme bands. In Oulu city,
in Oulu province some winters never
seem to end. One hundred days of snowfall
cocoons them. Their lives aren’t insulated
but — like their unmelted winter snow —
yields to sublimation. At world’s peak
they shred artifice into arctic essence.
A fickle inkling of this instinct, perhaps
is why glazed in frost we dropped the grace-
notes and found in each other
necessity.
Poem Description: Oulu is a city in Finland that hosts the annual Air Guitar World Championship, receives an average of 105 snowy days each year that drop a total of 18" of snow, and has a tourism website that boasts it's "Metal Density" as 28.69 Metal Bands per 1000 km2.
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