Doll Parts
BY MITCHELL GLAZIER
West Virginia University, ’17
2016 Adroit Prize for Poetry: Editors’ List
for Kat Ward and Courtney Love
Survival is candy neck bones & cheer wine.
Roadside testament: pig loin, blood silos.
You’re a god, swallowed.
Spring lamb & apricot.
Crucifixion is a modern thing i.e. personal ads, gloryholes.
I know you, snow & berry. Listen.
Sell your blue organs to the meat department.
Something this cold splits open:
birth scar, cold-water
oysters, the boy-on-boy motel fresco.
Joan-of-Arc was a noun girl
bound in meadow, chicory, leather gag box.
The small boy in the slip dress parses words,
hangs a saint in the mirror.
road head
BY MITCHELL GLAZIER
West Virginia University, ’17
2016 Adroit Prize for Poetry: Editors’ List
- The forests are worried
He fills my fever with honey
& machinery.
Jawline: a silver beauty note.
$$$ daddy 4 boy
on I-68
southbound $$$ I’ll reply in throat/locust/
pixie lines on a play mirror.
- The soul did its work
These lines are wintering;
salt, husk, maple.
Mind you, I’ll tend the garden
until earth becomes
practical again. I’ll unlearn the bodies
6 x 6.
III. All this time
A boy’s blue satin
dream coat stuffed
with
feathers & artillery.
Sappho = sea *shimmer*
- The poem wants his body
Possible rain. Pale worms
inch in quivers. Christ’s knees
pull stylishly in. Honey, he’s tired
of occurring live. Late-breaking.
