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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
E. J. Koh is the author of memoir The Magical Language of Others and poetry collection A Lesser Love. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Recipient of Prairie Schooner's Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, she accepted fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, Kundiman, the MacDowell Colony, and others.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Doom
Pledge of Allegiance
I am the country of myself, liberty and justice
for all, and my country cannot apologize anymore.
When my mother tells me, under allegiance:
Be happy! When you smile happiness is chase you —
her language is a hand she lays on my head.
Time swings by the front of our lives and doesn’t undress itself,
will not bathe itself. You cannot pity a baby for which it cannot stand
one nation, under God. The type of people I am,
300 million times over.
I pledge to the flag just-wet with jet fuel
from the Hubblescope of the United States of America.
Read the news: Protestor dies from fumes of burning flag.
Pistachios undergo spontaneous combustion. The grenade
hand-made from YouTube comments to the Republic
for which it stands, Jurassic Park, under God,
indivisible. Pick one for all. God is 65 million years away.
Looking into a telescope at Earth,
he sees dinosaurs. We stare at Mayan temples
and they are giant loudspeakers.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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