From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue Nov 4 16:12:06 2014 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 19:12:06 -0500 Subject: [RealPoetik] Shamala Gallagher Message-ID: JULY For months I eat only apples I keep them in my closet I return palming the oil of their smell Deep skins red as between the teeth Now you lie in his arms proud as a stretched leg Listen it is near midsummer and our friends are fucking in the twilight smoking in the brambles is it getting too late If I eat only apples I am not thin yet will my bones be like the edges of a bowl DIRT MOUTH The radish glares and thickens on its red hidden string but who knows if the beets will root: bull-dark, cheeks stained chocolate: whole and blood- certain as my brute ache for you in the night *Shamala Gallagher*'s chapbook *I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke* is forthcoming from dancing girl press in 2015. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and lives in Athens, Georgia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue Nov 4 18:23:05 2014 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:23:05 -0500 Subject: [RealPoetik] Shamala Gallagher Message-ID: JULY For months I eat only apples I keep them in my closet I return palming the oil of their smell Deep skins red as between the teeth Now you lie in his arms proud as a stretched leg Listen it is near midsummer and our friends are fucking in the twilight smoking in the brambles is it getting too late If I eat only apples I am not thin yet will my bones be like the edges of a bowl DIRT MOUTH The radish glares and thickens on its red hidden string but who knows if the beets will root: bull-dark, cheeks stained chocolate: whole and blood- certain as my brute ache for you in the night *Shamala Gallagher*'s chapbook *I Learned the Language of Barbs and Sparks No One Spoke* is forthcoming from dancing girl press in 2015. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and lives in Athens, Georgia. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: