[Realpoetik] CATHERINE THEIS

[RealPoetik Magazine]

MARTIAL


Bring me my spring cups,
fill them with thrum, with spring
crocus, hailstorm, foxglove.
Bring me those purple flowers
on tall spikes, drooping
and tubular, no—
bring me the nectar.
Let the cups be contrived
of white petal,
of coma-inducing digitalis medicine.
Put the jewel heist
in my spring cups.
Retching on the clover,
the clover comes
into focus.





*from* THE JUNE CUCKOLD


Shitty sun my own kind
You hate to touch it
Until you do

                      Love,
                     The Insects in the Insect Trees



*Catherine Theis is the author of The Fraud of Good Sleep (SUN SUN SUN
Press), and her new poems are forthcoming in Action Yes, LIT, Sonora Review
, Volt, and New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology (horse less press). She is the
recipient of a 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts
Council.*
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