From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Jun 5 10:35:17 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:35:17 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] ALEXIS ORGERA Message-ID: EXPONENTS 1We are a thing near and full, wide and empty or— the notation of what doesn’t— 2What’s the broken arrow in your cheek? But I know. It is something I did to you in the jungle. 3Distance marked in stones, a series of particulate revelations. 4Stabbing around in here, guilty glyphs are ocean. 5On the car ride home from sick father, I hear the songs you left me. 6You might not think it, but I can still hear the trees glowing. 7From other countries you send photos. Splayed on the table, my betrayal painted onto that shop window in Florence. 8The pain in my back a residual of your years of lack. 9Strangest sound, sprinkler in winter, the permanent displacement. Florida not an isthmus you’ll touch again. 10I don’t need protection from a force wrapped around my ribcage. So many years of unwavering on that particular ladder of bone. 11When I left I wore a mask so you couldn’t see. 12Fixating on an agility of crows. You knew black- birds would find in this poem a stoop. 13Uncertainty an archipelago. What are decisions anyway in the afterlife of longing? Only bodily unfastenings here on earth. 14What I want is for you to eat the last cookie. 15I hope all those beautiful women give you their terrain. I turned you from my pockets. 16A caravan of demons my horse-and-buggy to heaven. 17A beer and a Xanax keep me on my toes, which are boulders on the high- way between selves. 18Nagging feeling that some disease of will lodges inside me. 19When you come home, the cat’s yours. 20I can’t see the days for their brightness. 21An orange tree fruiting without its leaves. Nature’s flagrant foul. 22What I want for you now and ever is to wear rain boots on the rafters. *Alexis Orgera* lives in Florida. She is the author of *How Like Foreign Objects* , available from H_ngm_n BKS, and two chapbooks: *Illuminatrix* (Forklift, Ink) and *Dear Friends, The Birds Were Wonderful!* (Blue Hour Press). Her poems have appeared in places like *Bat City Review*, *DIAGRAM*, *Folio*, *Forklift Ohio*, *Fou*, *Green Mountains Review*, *Gulf Coast*, *H_ngm_n*, *In Posse Review*, *jubilat*, *Luna*, and *storySouth*. She edits the sporadic *New CollAge *magazine at New College of Florida. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Jun 12 09:49:32 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:49:32 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] ADAM CLAY Message-ID: THE END Any sense is stumbling, I believe with the greatest ability to do so. A thousand breakfasts go by without a single plate. This is a world where the cars drive themselves and the children tuck us in at night. Somehow, we don’t mind the thought that we might not wake up or even be reincarnated after the world whimpers and whines toward its mournful end. I like that look on your face— let me keep on guessing wordlessly and thoughtfully. It’s time to leave this place worse off than we found it. *Adam** Clay* is the author of *The Wash*. His second book, *A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World*, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He co-edits *Typo Magazine*. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sat Jun 25 23:25:31 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:25:31 +0200 Subject: [Realpoetik] JEFF FALLIS Message-ID: AT BARTON SPRINGS My feet stick in the slick moss, I watch the breathing belly of the gangly brunette sitting steaming on the rocks, the stars arch into brains and backbends. Between the bottom of my ribcage and the central sunspot of my navel is an inner orbit of nerves and rivers. I glow odd and alive: am a moonlit bruise looking for the fist that birthed me. *Jeff Fallis* is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Georgia. His poems have appeared in publications like *The Oxford American* , *The Iowa Review*, and *Ploughshares* and in the anthologies *Blues Poems* and *The Art of Losing*. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: