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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Grace Q. Song is a Chinese-American writer from New York. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Half-Mystic, The Shallow Ends, DIALOGIST, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, L'Éphémère Review, Crab Creek Review, Into the Void, [PANK], and elsewhere. A high school junior, she has been recognized by Interlochen Arts Academy, Hollins University, Pennsylvania State University, and Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. In her spare time, she edits for Polyphony Lit and Bitter Melon Magazine. She is a 2019 Best of Net nominee.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
False Elegy
After The Attack
— for my mother
sunlight crumbled.
wires tangled, thrashed
and debris choked you
in its fist. the halo
of petroleum scattered
like ravens, all over
september. on the way home,
you passed children zigzagged
in yellow lines, red-blued eyes
full of war. the dogs
no longer nipped your heels
for scraps but rolled
in siren puddles.
it should’ve been you
had you not taken the subway
under the river
& you worshipped god
because of it. every year
my school shows us videos
& we hold requiems
in our mouths.
what they don’t show
is my mother, the twins
in her midtown
cradle, grief
like a wound.
how she stayed silent
for years until
my first june cry —
hunger
like a rebellion.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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