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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Vismai Rao's poems appear or are forthcoming in the Indianapolis Review, Salamander, RHINO, Shore Poetry, & elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in India.
Poets Resist
Edited by Logan February
July 31, 2019
Edited by Logan February
July 31, 2019
In the Aftermath
Flesh is found on almost all windows that were saved from the explosion.
A boy with unblinking eyes, big as planets can’t see the cameras flash
before his unblinking eyes.
Someone’s counting arms missing on bodies.
Armed men file out to protect us from armed men.
A string of prayer beads is found without a name or number. No one
comes forth to claim it.
A single bullet is dislodged from its place on the wall, leaving place for nothing
but a single bullet.
Someone’s calling out for Jaan. Jaan is nowhere to be seen.
Ten thousand years from now no one knows why this city was abandoned.
Archaeologists guess at water — it’s lack.
Ash and brick-dust smog the skies like twilight. It never grows dark
or light.
The boy who blew up into a ball of smoke & flame was a boy.
Jaan in Urdu is life, but also, dear, or darling.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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