A dying glitter God
Did most of the glitter
blind your eyes
as you tried to dig for gold
with your silver spoon?
Your promises are impossible
as if we are traveling to Heaven
through an eye of a needle
in a camel’s eye—
Your initial charm
is mildly toxic as tangerine oxygen;
while buried in pink Himalayan salt blocks,
did you feel God yet?
Or did all your promises
fall by the wayside,
as you sweated your songs out,
trying to make things happen?
©2021 Carrie Magness Radna All rights reserved.
Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review and First Literary Review-East. Her poetry collections: Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019, and In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was recently published in February 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.
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