[Realpoetik] ALEXANDRA MATTRAW

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EVERY FIGURE 1 : I





:  is concentric  :



: rakes sand to remove pine needles :



: believes in the impersonal :



: melts ice left in the glass :



: sees story arc in oceans :



: writes down what’s eaten :



: differentiates :



: mistakes highway tire treads for dead crows :



: grows in sand :



: chalks a nightstand with aspirin :



: can reply, “The tumbleweed barbs the rumble strip hills” :



: is damp :



: thinks the heart has a smell :



: believes the deer will migrate through the deer underpass and live into
the other side :



: is a member :



: will argue, “Mushrooms and stones are currency.” :



: slips :



: collects green bottles to empty them :



: can’t see her full body when looking directly :



: is why :



: believes the river has a beginning :


: will pay for it


*Alexandra Mattraw’s *first chapbook, *Projection*, is available at Achiote
Press, and her second chapbook, *in the way of harbors*, is forthcoming at
Dancing Girl Press.  A former Vermont Studio Center resident, her poems and
reviews have also appeared in journals such as *Denver Quarterly*, *Verse*,
*Word For/Word*, *VOLT*, and *American Letters and Commentary. *Alexandra’s
full manuscript was a finalist at both Nightboat Books (2009) and 1913
Press (2011).  She runs a reading and art salon series in San Francisco
called *Lone Glen*.

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