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Girls like Gargoyles

Naomi Glassman

New Jersey




Girls like Gargoyles

shot-free, for today this day you
swear, undercover, in chains in Bethesda

where a swarm of pirates wind
somewhere inside your nightshade
veins you swear on whitestrap brass

buckle bindings, on Plath’s last oven
inspired smile that this was an accident.

they prescribe you encapsulated silver
red medicinal chalks stuffed with powders
with inks of therapy. You babble on

about shoddy blue bathmats degrading
understep slippery showers a razor
left to rust in the old soapdish. An

accident. Yearly like some tired birthday
jade fluteworm-like veins pulled
out of an arm, a shower of bleach rush

hour neglect of the breaks. Such gravelitter
the orderlies murmer she appears like an angel

carved instead of painted stuck to the facing
of a ghetto’s only church pulling turning winged
shoulders out from the rock

simple erosion will never free you soon enough
now that you’ve had a taste of flight.


Naomi Glassman

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