From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Nov 6 08:58:49 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:58:49 -0500 Subject: [Realpoetik] CAROLINE YOUNG Message-ID: RECONSTRUCTION FLYERS Because birds do not wait for insurance agents, I assess the mother as she settles on the Elm eyes over broken limbs drops and bombs, sizing twigs by beak. Dwelling under fallen trees her silence keeps things simple. The adjuster whys over every brick, measures life in shingles, chimney, sheetrock, boards and nails. I review my coverage. Overhead, the harbingers drift. Beneath, the street life lies: eyes negotiate lines down, sidewalks strewn in reconstruction flyers *remains are not to be removed* by firemen, lawyers, photographers, anyman with a chainsaw. I count torn gutters to resettle. Where trees once lined the street – a sky beneath, a row of brittle homes strip-searched by the storm. Amid the rubble, nests are born of insulation, splintered beams. *Caroline Young* has grown increasingly tired of our culture’s persistent cat/dog debate. Both animals are masters of the kill shake, so what is there to discuss? If someone wants to write a poem about this, she will read it. Otherwise, she’ll just keep putting her faith in trees. Thanks for reading the work. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Nov 13 20:10:48 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:10:48 -0500 Subject: [Realpoetik] MC HYLAND Message-ID: SWIM-CINEMA & YOU your skin in the flame falling the lightest snow in rhythm are we in a new kind of beach clouds refracted & static as though my eyes only watch the boat devoid the gate placed by *sur la côte d’azur* & the slow drift from the hillside how the names beach this water forehead crease waves gently upon the light in the woman & boy & now leaves winking & reflective within a jar the man crushed a black cloak the madonna these walls & an arrow in the din & dim fog * * * * * **MC Hyland* is the author of *Neveragainland* (Lowbrow Press) and the chapbooks *Every Night In Magic City* (H_NGM_N), *Residential, As In* (Blue Hour Press) and (with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck) *the hesitancies* (Small Fires Press). She lives in Minneapolis, where she runs DoubleCross Press and the Pocket Lab ReadingSeries, and works at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Nov 27 07:58:55 2011 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:58:55 -0500 Subject: [Realpoetik] ADAM FIELED Message-ID: #1200 She asked me how I did it, I turned my arm over, said look at these veins, I write with them, they are a well, she said well that’s all very dramatic, but those veins should be used for life— if your blood is working double-time, your heart will only get half of what it needs. She hurt me, I said leave my blood alone, you can never understand, but her full house beat my flush— *Adam Fieled* is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released five print books: *Opera Bufa *(Otoliths, 2007), *When You Bit...* (Ot*oliths, 2008), Chimes (Blazevox, 2009), Apparition Poems (Blazevox, 2010), and Equations* (blue & yellow dog press, 2011), as well as e-books like *Beams* (Blazevox, 2007), *Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled* (Argotist e-books, 2010), and *Mother Earth* (Argotist e-books, 2011). He has work in *Jacket*, *Cordite*,*Pennsound*, *Poetry* *Salzburg* *Review, the Argotist* , *Great Works*, *Tears in the Fence*, *Upstairs at Duroc*, and in the *& Now Awards Anthology* from Lake Forest College Press. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: