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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Gayatri Rajan (she/her) is a writer and high school sophomore from Andover, MA. Her work has been recognized by Eunoia Review, Creative Minds Imagine magazine, Best in Teen Writing, Write the World, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, among others. In her spare time, she loves listening to electro-pop, hanging out with her sister, and drinking far too much tea.
Also by Gayatri Rajan:
Lifeline
Poets Resist
Edited by Riley Leight
March 4, 2020
Edited by Riley Leight
March 4, 2020
Poem Inside A Locker Room
Golden Shovel from the Access Hollywood tapes
Girl, this is how you die the first time. Just
ten minutes behind a locker. This kiss
could turn a daughter to grave. Girl, I
am bad at forgiveness, I kiss my monsters, I don’t
believe in safety. They say this is what men need, even
the good ones. In this version, the snake doesn’t wait
to strike. The world is a cavern of mouths, and
you, you are bone-chewed, porous, more gape than girl. When
it begins the other boys hide. Your hide. Girl, you’re
a woman now, behind the lockers’ teeth. Womanhood a
flood of molars, dissolving, dissolved. Won’t you light a star
for the men? By June you’ll have sewn yourself a new skin. You
will watch the other girls emerge from doorways and alleys, can-
-did collapse, what this world will do
to a girl who trusted bone, air, anything.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
