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New Poetry from Alina Pleskova

written by Guest Contributor December 17, 2018

BLOOD MOON

I watch a lover act corny on the internet
& my Cloud swells w/ new knowledge

There’s a recent photo of me in burnished Southwest sunlight,
looking relaxed,

& I study her w/ resolve, still tugging
the laundry line of my wants

I ask the internet if anyone wants to switch libidos for a week

I ask Daniel to spot me a soul & I’ll venmo him tomorrow

August is an inconsolable month
spent gulping lushness at the edge of the treeline

Tsvetaeva says However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest

Raena says I’m wearing a bodysuit come get me, just in time

My date says Hope it wasn’t anything I did,
38 min from the time I leave my apartment

Jayson says Stay grounded, love after we get stoned for four days & four nights
in a protective measure against the blood moon

We dipped our fingers into a black bowl out on the porch
& lit white candles from the dollar store

& listened to Toni Braxton
Intentions are what matter here

Lifestyle choice is a term above my paygrade
This is how my life came to me, askew

& baring its unsatiety, beckoning toward
the next astonishment

Sometimes it’s hoodoos w/ bands of white & rust-orange.

Sometimes it’s rustle of tumbleweed, dust whirl, dim lavender skyscape

Sometimes it’s a you-abstraction

Mostly it’s my friends, their hearts crystal-bright
& down to be slung wherever this summer

We’re losing a minute of light each day now,
hurtling toward the solstice

There’s a gentle resignation in Cohen’s voice when he sings, 
Ah but you got away, didn’t you babe

like the turning of lovers isn’t our business to think through
beyond its experiential truth

I masturbate before walking to the co-op to feel
more certain about my guac selection

& the long, lone shadow
I accompany home

I ask my phone

What time is sunset

What kind of moon tonight

What song was playing when my heart’s chambers got thrown open

to let these breezes in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLIPSTREAM

1.

 

We don’t get to choose
which metaverse we inhabit—


We just don’t get 

to choose

 

I‘m stuck in the one

w/ our sullen proxies,

 

bickering in the wake of years

The train plunges into

 

an underwater tunnel

& we freeze-frame, let

 

the sonorant bloodrush

surge through us

 

 

2.

 

I’ve lost sight of the sweet

spot between patience

 

& constant motion

You side-eye yr newly-

 

scuffed pumps on my feet,

say finally: The beer got all warm

 

I say, We can’t revise

the weather, a knee-jerk

 

Tension makes you radiant,

I won’t add

 

Whose stun-gunned

palpitation is this in my ear?

 

 

3.

 

In love, as in work,

you move shrewdly

 

You don’t mention
who miscalculated

 

or misread, who thought

we had time

 

& who idled w/ symbolic 

balm at the ready

 

 

4.

 

You call yr life in this city 
comfortable, as if to explain

 

you weren’t born into it 
& want to be tactful

 

about making enough to buy 
pressed juice daily,

 

luxury lipstick subscriptions,
to tell me, I‘ve got you 

 

so often, it becomes 
a barbed refrain

 

In a different reality,
I might’ve brought you

 

a box of Ferrero Rochers
to diffuse all this

 

We might’ve strolled for hours,

hands clasped behind us

 

as elders still do in the countries

we came from

 

& not this life, where you ask
what I want from you

 

& the answer is

a clean break

 

5.

 

I want to finish anything,

even if inelegantly

 

& a mode of care that refracts light

instead of devouring it

 

While I’m thinking on
how to tell you this plainly,

love persists in marking 
the places language can’t reach,

 

& it waits, so that when I return 
after some interval, I wobble

 

like a compass needle
in the presence of a wayward force.


I don’t say where I’ve been
& you don’t question

 

You slide over, leave a slipstream

of glower & glow for me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Alina Pleskova is a poet, editor, & Russian immigrant living in Philly. Her first chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published in by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. She co-edits bedfellows– a biannual print & online magazine that catalogs discussion of sex, desire, & intimacy– with Jackee Sadicario. Poems appear in Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Elderly, Mistress, American Poetry Review, & more. Find her at: alinapleskova.com & @nahhhlina.

 

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