From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 3 09:13:21 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:13:21 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] BRIAN FOLEY [Part Three] Message-ID: IT TAKES LONGER TO GATHER LIGHT it takes longer to gather light from under to replenish each please thieved over a goon shoulder put up with what sea could take it to the other side and bring you to me to be believed where else but in the frame love forms for the simple reason that it does not insist * Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution (Horseless Press, 2011) & The Black Eye (Brave Men Press, 2010). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Springgun, Action Yes, Saltgrass, Columbia Poetry Journal, Poor Claudia, & elsewhere. He curates the jubilat reading series in Amherst, MA, and co-runs Brave Men Press. * -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 10 08:23:52 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:23:52 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] DAN ROSENBERG Message-ID: BACK burrow in blankets the heatless extremities what can’t be held but isn’t leaving a light in your lung head to a familiar breast AND THE SOMETHING THAT IS The mosquito frozen to my window in a splay of not falling. White landscape pops his tan stripes, wings arched, spectacles. *Dan Rosenberg*'s poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in several journals, including *American Letters & Commentary*, *Pleiades*, *Subtropics *, and*Sixth Finch*. His chapbook, *A Thread of Hands*, is available from Tilt Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at The University of Georgia and co-editing the poetry journal *Transom *. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 17 20:46:56 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:46:56 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] S.M. FATTIG Message-ID: MAN O’WAR Don’t see me, don’t hold me. Only remind me of past thievery, of a lack less biting. The neat growing stack of unspeakable things: Tiny lips, tissue tricked, numb-limbed spectery. The exact translucence of slitted eyes and fists. Oily sluices of blood bear us into braced airways, a house without a door. Next to her on the blanket (spreading stain etc.), a surly cobbled heart. PILOT Everywhere he goes, John the Baptist scans compulsively for places he might sleep if he were homeless. He marks street names and landmarks in a notebook. Water towers appeal to him especially. He is often mistaken for Kris Kristofferson and middle-aged women in beg him to sing “Jesus Was a Capricorn.” John patiently explains to them that actually, Jesus was a Pisces. They walk away whispering cruelly, elbows and wrists scraping together. When he is particularly distraught he steals cats from porches. He returns them moments later, overcome with dander and self-loathing, eyes streaming. He vanishes glumly before the police. It is a lonely existence but he feels satisfied. *S.M. Fattig *is currently living in Nebraska and pursuing her MA in Early Childhood Education. Her work has appeared in *Octopus Magazine*, *Ink Node *, and *MARY Magazine*. In addition to poetry, she is currently at work on textile projects involving found fabrics. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 24 19:06:53 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:06:53 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] SHANE MCCRAE Message-ID: HOW TO RECOGNIZE IT Master I learned from more than anybody him what love is how / To recognize it love That’s how I knew I was right to cut Mary’s throat Thinking of what he did to me my body what I knew he would Do to Mary to Priscilla cut / Didn’t just cut and leave her body move On to her sister made sure she was dead I loved her wanted her / Head to come off in my hands *Shane McCrae* is the author of *Mule* (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and two chapbooks, *One Neither One* (Octopus Books, 2009) and *In Canaan* (Rescue Press, 2010). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in *The Best American Poetry 2010*,*Fence*, *Agni*, *Denver Quarterly*, *Typo*, and others. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: