“Praise Dave” by Glenis Redmond

A poem by alumna Glenis Redmond (poetry, ’11) appears at Drunken Boat:

First time I see a jar rise up,
I be midwifed into life.

Understood how these pots and I be kin
— dismissed to what’s under foot.

I learned to turn and turn —
people the world with pots.

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