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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Farah Taha is a writer from Beirut, Lebanon. She currently resides in Oklahoma, where she continues to write while completing a doctoral degree in English. This is her first published poem.
February 26, 2025
Dead Scenario at the End of June
Low’s Ones and Sixes plays
in the background, bouncing off the walls of the near
empty bedroom, off the edges of the disheveled bed.
The album quietens at the end of one track.
I hum along to the soft vocals
of the lead singer,
tune into the slowed rhythm of her breath,
drown in her lulling chords.
Outside
the sun dies slowly,
slower than my sad tears
escaping with no return.
“Lies” comes on and I lie
naked inside the emptiness inside
and I sing to myself:
No, it’s not what I wanna say
But I’ll say it anyway
What the fuck do I even do now?
Now that I know what I know about the way
he wants to hold me, the way
I want that hold, the cowardice
holding us both.
“Dead Scenario at the End of June” crosses my love for the indie band Low with the trepidation that accompanies desire. I stumble, confused always, but find solace in the music, its lyrics, their clarity. Born out of uncertainty, the poem can only ask and wonder without ever reaching closure.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published weekly by Glass Poetry Press.
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