[RealPoetik] Mary-Kim Arnold

[RealPoetik Magazine]

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.


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