The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 3/23/2009)

[RetroLounge]

After Meat

We eat nothing now the source
is burning. The flanks of English
cows are black and curved as though

to spread desire. Newspapers show
them dead on backs, limb-stiff, bellies
tight with late-year calves, the skulls

like chalk explosions, cast against sky,
a black scrim behind which farmers
soak gas. Once the curtain lifted;

on the smoky low stage, you saw
women divide themselves as though
cut down by blades. Between the lighted,

shearing legs: the entrance wound,
a burst of red. How is there any
want left in the world? Your hand's

on my breast, desirous, becoming
a different animal.

Alison Stine

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Alison Stine is the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister (Kent State, 2001), winner of the Wick Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, and others, and are forthcoming in Tin House, Meridian, and Phoebe. Formerly named an Emerging Writer at Gettysburg College, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her first novel.

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[blueraven95]

1. Good Morning!

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[RetroLounge]

2. Morning...

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RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. ~

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[RetroLounge]

8. ...

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[Chorophyll]

4. Really?

You get to be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford with poems like this? I dunno...

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[RetroLounge]

7. I guess so...

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RL

[Chorophyll]

11. I guess I was the dissenting viewpoint yesterday.

The loyal opposition. The gentlewoman from New York, if you will. :)

[blueraven95]

12. nope, not just you

it wasn't quite my cup of tea, either.

[BlueIris]

5. Excellent.

Beyond that, I've got nothing.

[RetroLounge]

9. That's enough...

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Retro...

Wow, metaphorically graphic...

Strong stuff to kick off the week with!

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[RetroLounge]

10. ...

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RL