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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and son Theodore in Blue Springs, Missouri. He was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6 month life expectancy, he entered the Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri—Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated with an M.F.A. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, and South Dakota Review. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His second, Father Me Again, is available from Spartan Press and chapbook Coming Home with Canceris forthcoming in Blue Lyra Press’s Delphi Poetry Series.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 28, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 28, 2019
Kavanaugh
After two days in the black robes
of October rain and testimonies of being
pinned down, hand over mouth,
the frat boy is confirmed to the supreme court.
It’s unlikely any good will come of this
severed head’s attempt to speak,
this severely beaten-down man with brain cancer
whose father doggedly flirted on a Dongguan
tour bus in front of his own daughter:
collected the contact, the email address,
and masquerading as a Bible salesman compiled
a hitlist of six or seven women. No,
I’m not him: I would like to be more interested
in today’s garden mums, for instance,
splayed in the flowerbed, the still yellow blossoms
spiraling away like children
on a merry-go-round, but I watch too much television.
Breezes tug the black sleeve
of my rain jacket, leading me back and forth
across the muddy lawn. I would like
to glimpse a little sky
in the cracked and oil-spotted pavement,
but the water reflects only clouds, more and more clouds
shifting in the white murk of the cataract.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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