ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Gabrielle Grace Hogan is a poet from St. Louis, MO currently living in Austin, TX while she pursues her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been published by the Academy of American Poets, Nashville Review, Kissing Dynamite, Passages North, and more. She is the Poetry Editor of Bat City Review and Co-Editor of You Flower / You Feast, an online anthology inspired by the music of Harry Styles. Her debut chapbook Soft Obliteration is available now from Ghost City Press.
Also by Gabrielle Grace Hogan:
Soft Obliteration
We Should Rob Banks Together
There’s An Angel At the End
Take Me in Your Tender Arms, Roll Me in the Dirt
— title taken from Holden Laurence’s “Cover Me in Roses”
cover me in roses. cover me in pearls.
cover me in lips. cover me in hornets.
cover me in blonde cheerleaders. cover me
in chocolate & feed me to the lesbians.
cover me in gestures. cover me in sauce.
cover me in sticky. cover me in defunding
the police. cover me in guillotines.
cover me in Julien Baker. cover me
in Carly Rae Jepsen. cover me in books
on animal conservation. cover me in jelly,
no peanut butter, i don’t have an allergy
i just think it’s gross. cover me in being 23 &
married to Prozac. cover me in crumbling
infrastructure. cover me in names. cover me in
girls’ names, headstones or otherwise. cover me
in Blu-Ray DVDs of But I’m A Cheerleader
starring Natasha Lyonne & Clea DuVall.
cover me in Clea DuVall. cover me
in the number 11, it’s my favorite sometimes.
cover me in Baroque, Rococo, arts & craft.
cover me in Jodie Foster’s used underwear.
cover me in shut up, shut up, oh god can’t you
keep it down. cover me in you breathless
in a wedding dress. in pitch, or the quality
of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations
producing it. in rhinestones dyed teal to match
my eyes.
This poem came as an exercise in writer’s block — I’d been wanting to write a poem but couldn’t find the words, so I did a practice I often do in this case where I find a pattern and stick to it for the length of the poem. Just to be producing something. Inspired by the Holden Laurence song “Cover Me In Roses,” I went through with the pattern of “cover me in _____.” This poem coincides with a particular project I was working on at the time, that sought to excavate media that was important to my queer awakening, whether the media itself was queer or not, alongside the tremulous nature of my queerness as it stands now in alignment with queer loneliness and lesbian love (or heartache). This poem is a part of a chapbook manuscript I currently have submitted to several contests, so fingers crossed by the time you’re reading this description it’s been accepted somewhere!
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published quarterly by Glass Poetry Press.
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