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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Tricia Knoll is a Vermont poet who has carried the bouquet of flowers to put at the doorstep of a victim of violence. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies. Her collection How I Learned To Be White received the 2018 Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
The River Stone You Call A Wishing Stone
Paper Money and Snake Eyes
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 9, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 9, 2019
Ritual of Carrying Flowers
Let the widow
with gray braids
and a backpack
choose a yellow iris
as the man with glitter
on the bill of his ball cap
offers a lilac sprig.
Carry orange gladiolas
to the wake, calla lilies
to the grave. Clasp hands
like rosebuds.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
