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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Michele Sharpe, a poet and essayist, is also a high school dropout, hepatitis C survivor, adoptee, and former trial attorney. The author of the poetry collection Back East (Moon Pie Press) and the memoir Walk Away (Kindle Singles), her works appear in venues including The Rumpus, The Washington Post, B O D Y, Guernica, Catapult, Poet Lore, and North American Review.
Also by Michele Sharpe:
Walk Away
Back East
Virus Conversations: Poems from the Hepatitis C Epidemic
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 5, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 5, 2019
Suspect
I’m an old white woman walking into Publix late at night
as a young black boy shoves the buggy his momma is done with
across the entry way, and it smashes into the others waiting
patiently up against the wall. He sees me startle and says, “Excuse me!
Sorry!” still smiling at his mischief, and I recover with “No worries, honey,”
pleased at my manners. After all the killings and acquittals, the market
is still full of color and sustenance. I buy what I want, with a brief worry
this abundance won’t last. Or the boy’s happiness. Next morning,
my white cup holding coffee delights me. I don’t smash it.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
All contents © the author.
All contents © the author.
