[Realpoetik] MARCUS SLEASE

[RealPoetik Magazine]

ROMAN RUINS



(special thanks Philip Whalen)





a hand in the bush

is worth two in the pocket



reared on nuts

brushed by a horseʼs tail



that cold clean temple



thunder descends from mount Asama



the lemon tree is heavy



all the fuses are blown



*colder and colder*

*the sun also shines*



a tarnished candle stick



*other things are perfected underground*

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*onions and parsnips and diamonds*

*let**ʼ**s have those*

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*Marcus Slease* was born in Portadown, N. Ireland in 1974. He has published
widely in North America and Europe in such magazines as: La Granada,
Cleaves, Octopus, Conduit, Diagram, Hayden's Ferry Review, Forklift Ohio,
Columbia Poetry Review, Talisman, and Past Simple. His latest collections
are: *from Smashing Time* (miPOesias Chapbook 2012), *Hello Tiny Bird
Brain*(Knives
Forks and Spoons 2011), *Balloons* (Deadwood Press 2011), and
*Godzenie* (Blazevox
2009). Currently, he lives in London and teaches travel writing and ESL at
Richmond American University. He blogs at Never Mind the Beasts:
www.marcusslease.blogspot.com.

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