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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sage Ravenwood is a deaf Cherokee woman residing in upstate NY with her two rescue dogs, Bjarki and Yazhi, and her one-eyed cat Max. She is an outspoken advocate against animal cruelty and domestic violence. Her poem, "Bullet Tithe," has been previously published in Glass Poetry — Poets Resist. She also has work forthcoming in the Sundress Press anthology, The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Bullet Tithe
Poets Resist
Edited by Daniel Cureton
November 9, 2019
Edited by Daniel Cureton
November 9, 2019
Wash It All Away
Skin wire brushed layer by layer,
Can’t wash away unwanted touch
Or an earlobe ripped clean through
Missing an earring.
Bruised flesh can’t heal right,
When love arrives at the end of a fist.
Followed by those words,
“Look what you made me do.”
The soil beneath your hands
Can’t be sowed or be made whole,
Where hate is planted on
Forsaken backs.
Children can’t go home, nowhere’s safe.
Alcohol’s drugged disease is a family trait,
And School is a shooter’s paradise.
Say goodbye to innocence.
Prayers go unheard from cracked lips
Bled from hunger and cold.
And bed is any number of streets
Tread by threadbare promises.
Let the floods come, let the earth
Crack beneath our feet.
Let the hierarchy surrender.
Let the will to live be tender.
Wash it all away. Wash it all away.
Wash it all away.
"Wash It All Away" is America unwound with violence in homes, on the streets, and school shootings becoming the new normal. Poverty and homelessness are on the rise and we’re left feeling helpless on soil that breeds hate. Among all this turmoil it’s hard to remember to be tender with our hearts.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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