Sugar House Review · Arah Ko's "Cullet"
CULLET
I’ve swallowed glass for every bottle
you drank. Call me terror. Call me
reckonings you looked for
in the bathroom mirror. Call
me shit that oughta been slapped
out of you younger, before the old
men touched you in a stained-
glass cathedral. Call me window
broken by your ruined knuckles. My
blood is your blood; my nose is your
mother’s nose. Compared to you, I am
summer that never ends, tempered glass,
a nest of unhatched eggs. I say hello & you
pray my name back to me.
ABOUT THE POET
Arah Ko hails from an active volcano but is currently based in the Midwest. Her
recent work has appeared in Sidereal, Fugue, Grimoire, and New Reader
Magazine, among others. Arah is an MFA candidate in creative writing at the Ohio
State University where she serves as Wheeler Prize editor for The Journal. When
not writing, Arah can be found correcting her name pronunciation or making a
mean pot of coffee. Catch her at ArahKo.com.
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