<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> After the prairie fire</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> </font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> we fell in love beneath</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> A palm tree:</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> <b>NUCLEAR GREEN</b> thorough</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> and crystalline</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> I was a blue chartreuse.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
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</font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> French cemeteries <i>are</i> better, aren't</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> they, Benadryl?</font></p>
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</font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"> "First Coast," my ass, Jacksonville, Florida.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">Sharon, in the dream, talking</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">all night <b>TO A SUMMER WILLOW</b></font></p>
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</font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">A TREATISE ON TELEPORTATION</font></b></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><b><br></b><b><br></b>Out</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">of their cold, in</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">to our</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br>
</font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">dark</font></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><br></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif">It was a long time ago.</font></p>
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<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, serif"><font color="#141010">Michael </font><font color="#141010"><font class="" color="#222222">Keenan</font> received his MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. His first chapbook, “Two Girls,” was published by <i>Say No Press </i>in 2009, and his first book, "Translations On Waking In An Italian Cemetery," will be released by <i>A-Minor Press</i> 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 <i>Fence</i>, <i>Alice Blue Review</i>, </font><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#131010">Shampoo</font></i><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#141010">, Paul Revere’s Horse</font></i><font color="#141010">, and </font><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#131010">Arsenic Lobster</font></i><font color="#131010">, among others, and</font><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#141010"> </font></i><font color="#141010">is forthcoming in <i>Noo Journal</i></font><font color="#131010">. </font><font color="#181414">Michael no longer drives a waffle truck in Northern Florida, but he wishes that he did.</font></font></p>
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<br></div>-- <div><br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a>
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