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A Love Like Glass: it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson : Arc Poetry


it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson is a moving collection of razor-sharp poems. Broken into four parts, part one opens with the speaker asking to be called sea glass, which is smooth, round, and beautiful. Glass is a recurring image throughout the collection, signifying both the potential to cut, and the potential to break. Indeed, simpson employs a beautiful breathy and broken line that dances across the page throughout the collection:
            i was                 &                     still am
            fragments        &                     fissures            (“nogojiwanong // peterborough”)
There is a vulnerability throughout the collection that asks, cautiously, to be understood, seen, and to be loved: ....

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