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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Alexandra Corinth is a disabled writer and artist based in DFW. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Artifact, the Mayo Review, Mad Swirl, Thimble Literary Magazine, and Atticus Review, among others. Her poem, “A Guide for the Visitors of Solovetsky Monastery” was chosen as a top 10 winner of the Writer’s Garret’s 2018 Common Language Project.
Poets Resist
Edited by Asante Keron Hamid
November 19, 2018
Edited by Asante Keron Hamid
November 19, 2018
Election Day 2018, Part II
The man handing out paper ballots
spits the word millennial at me
like chew residue into
a plastic McDonald’s cup
He says I can tell
based on your ID
which is the not
the vertical driver’s license
of the under 21
but a Common Access Card
issued by the military
and I don’t really know
where to begin a response
to so much seething wrong
so I just say yes I am
turn my back
pick up the cheap ballpoint pen
tug on the thin wire tether
and do the terrifying thing
he expects a millennial like me to do —
summon a wave of blue to
engulf the ruins of this city
wash the blood from these crumbling streets
so that we might at last
learn how to swim
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
