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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Jennifer Saunders is a poet currently living in German-speaking Switzerland. Her poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Dunes Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, San Pedro River Review, Spillway, The Shallow Ends, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Self-Portrait with Housewife, was selected by Gail Wronsky as the winner of the 2017 Clockwise Chapbook contest and is forthcoming from Tebot Bach Press. Jennifer holds an MFA from Pacific University and in the winters she teaches skating at a hockey school.
Also by Jennifer Saunders:
Self-Portrait with Gene Sequence
Self-Portrait with Housewife
Trying to Find Pictures of Roses Online I Discover a Trend
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Note Pinned to My Lips
Poets Resist
Edited by Cody Stetzel
September 26, 2018
Edited by Cody Stetzel
September 26, 2018
Measured in Minutes
I read it, and I saw a drunken sexual assault that probably was
measured in minutes by two creeps with no premeditation.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) on Twitter
9/17/18 1:28 AM, responding to attempted rape allegations
against Brett Kavanaugh.
Cover (one Mississippi) your (two Mississippi) mouth.
Smash (three Mississippi) that (four Mississippi) palm (five Mississippi)
good and hard (six Mississippi)
against (seven Mississippi) your lips.
Find a body (eight Mississippi) bigger (nine Mississippi) than (ten Mississippi) yours
(eleven Mississippi)
and push (twelve Mississippi) (thirteen Mississippi) (fourteen Mississippi) yourself
(fifteen Mississippi) down
(sixteen Mississippi) on
(seventeen Mississippi) the
bed
and turn (eighteen Mississippi) up (nineteen Mississippi) the (twenty Mississippi) music
(twenty-one Mississippi) (twenty-two Mississippi)
louder.
Cover (twenty-three Mississippi)
that (twenty-four Mississippi)
mouth (twenty-five Mississippi).
Push (twenty-five Mississippi) harder (twenty-six Mississippi).
Now tear (twenty-seven Mississippi) at (twenty-eight Mississippi) your (twenty-nine Mississippi) clothes.
(Thirty Mississippi)
Never (thirty-one Mississippi) forget (thirty-two Mississippi)
there (thirty-three Mississippi) are (thirty-four Mississippi) two (thirty-five Mississippi) of (thirty-six Mississippi) them (thirty-seven Mississippi)
twoofthemtwoofthemtwoofthemtwoofthem in the room with you.
(Thirty-eight Mississippi).
(Thirty-nine Mississippi).
(Forty Mississippi).
Try (forty-one Mississippi) to (forty-two Mississippi) yell (forty-three Mississippi)
for (forty-four Mississippi)
help.
Go on.
Push (forty-five Mississippi) that (forty-six Mississippi) hand (forty-seven Mississippi)
down (forty-eight Mississippi)
hard (forty-nine Mississippi).
Yank (fifty Mississippi)
at (fifty-one Mississippi)
your (fifty-two Mississippi)
clothes (fifty-three Mississippi).
Push (fifty-four Mississippi).
Yank (fifty-five Mississippi).
Push (fifty-six Mississippi).
Yank (fifty-seven Mississippi).
Can (fifty-eight Mississippi) you (fifty-nine Mississippi) still (sixty Mississippi) breathe?
Good.
That’s one.
Now.
Begin (one Mississippi) again.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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