From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 7 10:13:18 2013 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:13:18 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] ANNIE WON Message-ID: a man is playing the moonlight sonata on the piano there isn't really moonlight. the man has a grey crayon and has drawn it all over the canvas everything muddy. you can't really see anything because it's dark. moonlight is pretty dim. several years pass. the man continues until the entire canvas is uniform grey. then he begins to cry. it is so sad, he says. the brine beads off the cloth. he has used an entire box of kleenex. his crayon is a stub glued to the bottom of his hand. this is my greatest masterpiece, he says. *Annie Won* is a poet chemist aspiringyogi who lives in Cambridge, MA. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a Juniper Summer Writing Institute scholarship recipient, and has previously published in *Shampoo Magazine*. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Sun Apr 21 20:02:58 2013 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:02:58 -0400 Subject: [Realpoetik] MARK BILBREY Message-ID: THE DOG OF THE THROAT Dear throat: Given every living thing, given the farmer’s and butcher’s slaughter —in you are the hog’s hearts, the stalks, and the milk, and the grain of the wind, the grain heard, the flock herded, the swallow, the holler— what, throat, at your age, given every sing —and you cough and collapse and hack clear a way back through for so little a cry as the flies make— whose moan’s still born? *Mark Bilbrey* drags around degrees from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, The University of Iowa, and The University of Georgia. He recently taught Composition, American Poetry, Poetry Writing, and Bible as Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, but presently works for the Admissions office at Claremont McKenna College. Poems from the manuscript he's currently finishing have been published in * Versal*, *ACTION YES*, *42 Opus*, *LIT*, *Ghost House*, and *Straylight*. He lives in Claremont, California. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: