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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Issam Zineh is a Los Angeles-born, Palestinian-American poet and scientist. He is the author of the forthcoming chapbook The Moment of Greatest Alienation (Ethel Press, Spring 2021). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Clockhouse, Fjords Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.
Poets Resist
Edited by Sandra L. Faulkner
June 12, 2020
Edited by Sandra L. Faulkner
June 12, 2020
Plastic Bag
I will tonight, god willing, sleep like a
baby. I will dream, the recurring one in
which you wrap me in your arms
and drag me to the bottom of the
lake, hold me underwater until I
either drown or wake. In the
morning, news of a child in a plastic
bag floats across a bloated river,
even now as I see it, without allegory,
unaccompanied, minor.
This poem hopes to memorialize Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month old daughter, Valeria, who drowned in June 2019 trying to cross the Rio Grande.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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