[Realpoetik] ALEXIS ORGERA

[RealPoetik Magazine]

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* <http://www.h-ngm-n.com/hlfo/>, 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.



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