Lina ramona Vitkauskas

ARE YOU AS NEW MAN METICULOUS

1. begin with lipstick.

2. burn it to the raw ends and don't fight it.

3. halve female subject with saw of sight

4. wade in deaf lichen trough

5. encounter truth for nanoseconds

6. breach her distant forestry

7. know your diagrammatic limits

8. carbon date each line

9. gather astral clusters of neckline

10. channel holster chromosomes

ten paces and sling.

never face her.

Lina ramona Vitkauskas is the co-editor of the online lit mag, milk magazine, now 8 years running. She is also the author of THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING (Ravenna Press, 2008), Failed Star Spawns Planet/Star (dancing girl press, 2006), and Shooting Dead Films With Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004). She has been widely published in such magazines and anthologies such as The Prague Literary Review, The Chicago Review, 2008 Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets (Ed. Jessica Smith - Outside Voices), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007), Aufgabe, Moria, MiPoesias, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), Rampike (University of Windsor), Paper Tiger (Australia), and many others. Her web site is www.linaramona.com.