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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Schyler Butler received her BA in English from the University of North Texas. A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2020 and a lead poetry editor for Human/Kind Journal, her work appears in Writers Resist, Duende, Superstition Review, Obsidian, Heavy Feather Review’s #NoMorePresidents, Kissing Dynamite, and elsewhere, sometimes under the pseudonym “Iyana Sky”. Currently, she lives in Columbus, OH.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Bust Yoke
Poets Resist
Edited by Sandra L. Faulkner
June 15, 2020
Edited by Sandra L. Faulkner
June 15, 2020
Lest The Agenda
Be careful lest the agenda is skewed.
Your agenda: saving black bodies,
reminding the white ones of what human life
looks like as if they don’t know.
Your agenda: releasing trauma built up
so heavy in the muscles you don’t
even know light movement.
Is this ever the sole purpose of protest
when children of oppressors weave themselves
within? And then they tell us all problems
are connected like we, long ago, didn’t solve them first.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
