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Ethel (chapbook)
2022//limited edition 100 copies
Comes with a QR code for Audio Book version.
JOSHUA BURTON is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar, 2019 Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship winner, 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist, received the Honorable Mention for the 2018 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and was a 2020 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing finalist. His work can be found in Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming in the spring of 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press.
from Fracture Anthology
Heard
I.
when writing in my mother’s voice: two pulls earthing us
away from one another.
the horses attached to a single body, each limb
pulled away— seeing through to her
through
a muggy decanter. I can never truly capture her voice, yet,
in writing her here
my hope
is to let lyric light through her
like a myth through family. I cannot touch her voice—
the jar of salt in my hands.
II.
a man sings his story in voice of a woman, his mother.
am I silencing her voice, closing in
on myself, skeletal as I am from the start? I believe the light
that guides these words comes from care.
but there’s a difference between picking up broken glass
and knowing what to do with it.
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