[Realpoetik] MRB CHELKO

[RealPoetik Magazine]

from THE MARCH





The airless blue

to wake alive



again

place no thought no finger on



that miracle

life



ha

to get one



and discover work

music



the snow melts

reveals it's been collecting



bones

death I tear from my dog's throat



the way we want to eat each other up

the way we lick our swollen lips



our chapped lips

I'm alive



I tell my shirt because I want to take it off

when I talk about love I mean



am I the only one

this will need to be revised



I will need to be forgiven

and locked inside for some time



to wake alive

to sit at the table



stare at an open kitchen drawer

and think



never close





*MRB Chelko* is Assistant Editor of the unbound journal, *Tuesday; An Art
Project.*She has poems in current or forthcoming issues of* Indiana Review,
POOL, Washington Square, Forklift, Ohio *and *Verse Daily *among many
others. Her second chapbook, *The World after Czeslaw Milosz*, is
forthcoming from Dream Horse Press.

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