Mine
is made
of glass
and
glass
I’ve learned
can be
placed
in the mouth
can move
through
the body
if chewed
carefully
enough —
small
repetitions of
breaking
a thing
down
to dust
my country
until now
I have
loved you
enough
to swallow
— for Charlottesville
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Nico Amador is a poet, community organizer, and educator living in Vermont by way of San Diego and Philadelphia. He is co-editor of Thread Makes Blanket Press,and a recent alumni of the Home School and the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. His first chapbook, “Flower Wars” won the 2016 Gloria Anzaldua Poetry Prize.
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