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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the chapbook All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brain Mill Press, Haunted Waters Press, and others. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Honey
Poets Resist
Edited by Catherine Chambers
November 8, 2017
Edited by Catherine Chambers
November 8, 2017
This Body
This body is a war zone.
This body is a grenade
tossed inside the Senate
building. This body pulled
apart — a mouth taken
as a souvenir, a hand pinned
to a wall, splayed beneath glass
like a butterfly, a vagina
in a pocket for ease
of use. This body
a machine, programmed
to make breakfast and babies.
This body is a natural
disaster, raging tsunamis
and blazing forest fires.
This body is a toy, played with
then discarded. This body
is a weapon, razor sharp
and ready to cut.
This body is.
I wrote this poem because women's reproductive rights, and women's bodies, are constantly under attack. As the right to reproductive rights is constantly being debated by men, I felt like my female body was becoming a war zone.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
