9/19/2016 3 Comments Two Poems by Alexis Rhone FancherThose were strange days, now that I look back at them. (Murakami Cento Love Poem #2 -All text taken from Haruki Murakami’s, Norwegian Wood) 1. Things are not going well at home, she said. She had slimmed down, as if she had been hiding in some long, narrow space. I said, I'm not sure that has anything to do with love. 2. Wildly chopped, her hair stuck out in patches and the bands lay crooked against her forehead, but the style suited her. 3. Its' true, she said. Don't you think I'm terrible? Cold-hearted? I didn’t feel anything. 4. I was always hungry for love. She must have been exhausted. 5. Do you love me? Will you remember that I existed? 6. I returned to that small world of hers. I could feel the outline of her body in my hands. 7. Always, I said. I'll always remember. I still don’t know why she chose me. poem for my new boyfriend with oversized blue lips tattooed on his neck Is it your ex’s’s pout? I wonder. Blue and on your neck. Full lips, parted like an invitation - a visual love poem. Daytime, I keep to your good side, your skin unsullied. But in the night while you sleep I match my lips to the imprint tongue the moue of my predecessor’s mouth, lick her salty legacy, and come up thin. I can’t sleep for wondering if she’s for real, if she wore your pants, mouthed your prayers, sucked you off like a Hoover? I want them to be some stranger’s lips. Clip art, a souvenir of a 3-day bender in the company of sailors. Instead, after whisky and kinky sex, one night you let it slip: how just before she kissed you off she led you on a leash, sat you in the chair, cupped your chin, imprinted her lipsticked kiss on your neck’s throbbing pulse, and ordered the tattooist to begin. Bio: Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems,(2014) and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, (2015). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Slipstream, Hobart, Cleaver, Public Pool,The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. Since 2013 she has been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes and four Best of The Net awards. Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.www.alexisrhonefancher.com
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Chere Le Page
9/19/2016 04:39:49 pm
Gorgeous poems. 'loved them!
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9/20/2016 08:03:59 am
Wow! Alexis, you are on fire. Thank you for being YOU. Rockin' and ouchin' my day with your poetry stabs.
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10/3/2016 05:48:37 am
I love starting my day with some of your poems - they always put my head into an interesting funky kinky place.
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