words toward Marylyn Tan’s ‘Unclench’ (The Glass Chapbook series, 2026)
Unclench
Marylyn Tan
The Glass Chapbook Series 2026
Time can’t find its way out. Marylyn Tan is a poet whose verse wounds longing as a thing untaught in pop-up anatomy classes. If Tan’s previous work Gaze Back found that the abyss never changes its password, then Unclench digs a hole for the glass eye’s ghosted vision. Appetite is a spell the stomach learns might it unteach the body. Desire is a creature that switches gardens to improvise god. Normalization a food that tricks the child into an upbringing made of wax. Tan knows that the interior stretches its own imprecise radar over skins touch will only hear of. Listening, here, can throw its voice.
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