[Realpoetik] Marni Ludwig and Kristine Morfogen

[RealPoetik Magazine]

FUR



Lapping lapping as if god is a second stomach.



Is lichen a moss you ask if you kiss his fist are you basking

in an aftermath?



I answer, *Like my father,*

*afraid to step foot in a supermarket*.



In the parking lot

In the hit of my haw

In the pit of my lightning boat

I tape garbage bags to the windows

and am given take home pictures

of my bones.  It is my anniversary



and the dead have perfect hands

with which to match

their memory to the grass.



Did you think you would feel it in your head he said

when you were a photograph?



A white cricket clicked shhhhhh pity made you.



(my necklace in your mouth)



This is how I retrieve a life.



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*Marni Ludwig* is the author of
*Pinwheel*<http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/ludwig-pinwheel.html>
, selected by Jean Valentine for the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize and *Little
Box of Cotton and
Lightning*<http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/chapbook_fellowship/2011/little_box_of_cotton/>
, chosen by Susan Howe for a 2012 Poetry Society of America Chapbook
fellowship.  She lives in Athens, GA, and in Brooklyn, NY.

*Kristine Morfogen* is a native New Yorker. Although she got her MFA at
Pratt Institute, she is a newcomer to photography. She currently lives in
Brooklyn with her family. Contact her at morfogenk at yahoo.com.

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