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POETRY | ISSUE SIX
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Two Poems

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By MARGARITA DELCHEVA | Fall 2015
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Horacio Villalobos | c. 1975


​Domestic Ugh
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The third time you microwave chicken, 
it becomes non-chicken and is banished 
inside a collapsible whiskey flask, 
which stands on the anti-fatigue kitchen mat 
and slowly considers the choice between 
self-destruction and the inflatable oversized 
bowling set someone gave it 
for its birthday. The flask is not having 
the non-chicken, either, and collapses, 
forming a gravity field with a nondescript aroma, 
drawing all the whiskey in the world 
into a tiny speck, the hardest amber 
crux of it’s-over or 
chase-me-down with cotton candy 
and get on the first starship naked.







This is the Tunnel, Baby



With her red polka-dot skateboard, 

the girl on the G train 
is slightly hunched-over after work and yet 
we know it’s spring – since this morning 
the heedless catcalls are back. 
From the spray-painted van, 
from the manhole down on Marcy, 
the jeers multiply painfully, like cats 
whose chopped off tails 
are also hurting to become cats 
by the slightest touch of bourbon or 
hyacinth venom at the supermarket gates. 
I wonder if the girl in the Chaplin shoes 
gets them or if the girl in the emerald skirt 
gives them. Her legs have goose pimples, 
and so do mine. We didn’t ask for this. 
We didn’t sign up for the cold sweat. 
Stand clear the closing 
legs, she said to the subway door. 
There is a point 
between Metro and Nassau 
where the G jumps up from its rails, 
so quick, you could miss it.






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Margarita Delcheva’s poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Fugue, and others. She resides in Brooklyn.





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