From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue May 12 10:08:49 2009 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:08:49 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] Christina Frigo and Aaron Belz Message-ID: <86a3fe410905121008u791deec1jcaa052d68a88c02e@mail.gmail.com> LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY IS LIKE DRINKING FOUR GLASSES OF MILK IN A ROW *Christina Frigo* i. Lights! There are so many lights: stop kind, window kind, sun, moon, florescent kind, high-up kind, hanging, sconce, floor, blinking, red, purple, stained glass kind, candle, flash, bright kind and People! The People: loud kind, and creepy, smart kind, business, sexy, friendly, playing-bucket- drums-in-the park-kind, rich, arty, snobbish, well-read/dressed/traveled/fed/thought of kind, also the bright kind, and every kind, kind kind. Statues, too ii. Wow how bright these people and lights are! should be dark but I'm squinting neighbors shout for one of two reasons and of course cars and construction suggest ear plugs at night but I have made friends with some kinds of people I am in love with some kinds of light iii. This is not as easy-going as the first glass Mom still can't find "reason to visit" "seen all the statues, dear" Dad stopped sending money This city talks to traffic in tunnels I want to touch these people but I feel too far away iv. It smells like microwaved garbage feces on statues: bird kind on sidewalks: dog kind, People kind lines are long light makes what I don't want to see I get stomach aches FOUR GLASSES OF MILK *Aaron Belz* * * New York City-- luminous, populous, and with statuary. Also clangorous, tumultuous--its populace vociferous. Very. Where are my parents? Where are my parents? I'm all out of money. It's so malodorous as to leave me nauseous. ~ Christina Frigo has a poem in the current issue of decomP ( http://www.decompmagazine.com). She lives in New York City and has a degree in English from Illinois State University. Aaron Belz’s first book, *The Bird Hoverer* (BlazeVOX, 2007) will soon be succeeded by *Lovely, Raspberry* (Persea). He keeps a blog at http://belz.wordpress.com and lives in Los Angeles. -- RealPoetik realpoetik.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Thu May 21 08:10:08 2009 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:10:08 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] Cristiana Baik Message-ID: <86a3fe410905210810xae056d7jee36fb37c77dbf04@mail.gmail.com> *Ode to Clouds* O clouds, you interstellar happenings, you rhombus wisps of transparent leaves, shaping sight - a familial blossoming. O wide wind seers, cirrus-drafts of curving light, moving commas into mare’s tails, writing that evaporates into twines of kite overtures. O cumuli, down, down accumulate, thicken into different dreams, versions of Shakespeare’s fat, shy neighbors, hymning into separate colors, distinct, half-asleep in the smoky troposphere. *Cristiana Baik*'s work has been published in *Jacket Magazine, Conjunctions, American Letters & Commentary*, and other publications. She runs ::: the press gang:::, a small press with fellow poet, Sara Wintz, and works as an editorial assistant for the *Boston Review*. -- RealPoetik realpoetik.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: