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Cleaning Out

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!


She said goodbye
to alarm clocks,
appointment books
bank accounts,
cell phones,
welcome mats,

she scrubbed
guilt and regret
from the floorboards,
evicted troublesome
guests, opened
windows and doors
to let her house breathe

till she was clean
as a wind-stripped thicket,
airy as the left-
open spaces of a
Henri Moore sculpture,

the essence of form
(a face, a chest, an arm)
so clearly defined
by being absent.



Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Georgia Review. In the past she served as the poetry critic for The Virginian-Pilot, poetry editor for the Ghent Quarterly and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and co-founder of the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for Light Persists (2006), and the Poetica Publishing Chapbook Contest for The Long Life (2011). Her recent collectios are Jane Ellen Glasser: Selected Poems (2019), Staying Afloat during a Plague (2021) and Crow Songs (2021). Visit janeellenglasser.com.

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