From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Wed Jan 7 12:20:30 2015 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:20:30 -0500 Subject: [RealPoetik] Michael Martin Shea Message-ID: *from* Hermeneutics in caught the narrative thread slicing potatoes [these are the meals I would make you] He says *go away* to his phone! each kitchen a form of the eternal kitchen Madison is a place where [composing by the sink] let me encode you in some of my symbols CHRIST IS REAL BRO hogging the requisite pain pills and pumping in bedroom music excitement is the thing itself no more brides in the schoolyard [and my heart it goes all the way down] *Michael Martin Shea* lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. A 2014 Fulbright Fellow to Argentina, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in *Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Jubilat, Pleiades, Tender-Loin,* and elsewhere. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.club -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From realpoetik at scn9.scn.org Tue Jan 20 08:08:03 2015 From: realpoetik at scn9.scn.org (RealPoetik Magazine) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:08:03 -0500 Subject: [RealPoetik] Mary-Kim Arnold Message-ID: Conditional Self if we meet in the desert and if we let the scent of creosote enter us and if we spread our banquet beneath the flat blue sky and cry out yes and if we let the ghost lights wink over us as we open ourselves to the night and cry out yes and if you take me into your mouth and if my hipbones rise to meet you and if your teeth and if your tongue and if my hands and if my mouth and if I cry out yes and if you call my name and if the lights go dark and if we lose our breath and if we cry out yes and if we cry out yes and if we cry out then who will we be then and if then and if then *Mary-Kim Arnold*'s short fiction has appeared at *Tin House* (online), *Wigleaf*, *Swarm Quaterly*, and *The Pinch*. Her poems have been published in *Day One, Year One: Best of 2014, burntdistrict, Two Serious Ladies, Sundog Lit,* and elsewhere. She has also written for *HTML Giant, The Lit Pub,* and *The Rumpus*, where she is Essays Editor. Mary-Kim received her MFA in Fiction from Brown University and is studying poetry at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She plays bass in the band WORKING and lives in Rhode Island with her husband and children. -- RealPoetik www.realpoetik.club -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: