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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Katherine Hagopian Berry has appeared in Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, Glass: Poet’s Resist, and Frost Meadow Review and been both a finalist and showcase performer at the Belfast Poetry Festival. She has a poem forthcoming in A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis. Katherine lives and writes in Bridgton, Maine.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Sestina for Choice
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 27, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 27, 2019
Giant Squid, Alabama
Under the water
consuming light ray
thrilled to approach, I watch
the aching beauty
of a tentacle stinging
and retreating, such caress
almost enough
to make me long for dying,
the long slow dragging down
into wonder horror the deep
where something waits to hold us
in its many arms.
I watched the video of the giant squid captured off the coast of Alabama and what evolved was a sensual little nugget of a poem. I know it’s typical to think of resistance in terms of the political, the social, but I think there is also power in locating and naming beauty in what some might see as monstrous, grotesque or threatening.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
