[RealPoetik] Michael Keenan (Three Poems)

[RealPoetik Magazine]

                              After the prairie fire



                                                   we fell in love beneath


       A palm tree:



                              *NUCLEAR GREEN* thorough

                              and crystalline


                              I was a blue chartreuse.





               *






                              French cemeteries *are* better, aren't


                                         they, Benadryl?




                                                              "First
Coast," my ass, Jacksonville, Florida.


Sharon, in the dream, talking

all night *TO A SUMMER WILLOW*





               *





*A TREATISE ON TELEPORTATION*



Out


of their cold, in

to our


dark


It was a long time ago.






Michael Keenan received his MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. His
first chapbook, “Two Girls,” was published by *Say No Press *in 2009, and
his first book, "Translations On Waking In An Italian Cemetery," will be
released by *A-Minor Press* in 2014. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
in 2011 and was recently chosen by C.D. Wright to be featured in the PEN
Poetry Series. His writing has appeared in *Fence*, *Alice Blue Review*,
*Shampoo**, Paul Revere’s Horse*, and *Arsenic Lobster*, among others, and is
forthcoming in *Noo Journal*. Michael no longer drives a waffle truck in
Northern Florida, but he wishes that he did.




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