MRB Chelko is Assistant Editor of the unbound journal, Tuesday; An Art Project. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including current or forthcoming issues of AGNI Online, Bateau, Indiana Review, Laurel Review, POOL, Missouri Review, Sixth Finch, and Washington Square. Her two chapbooks are: The World after Czeslaw Milosz (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming in 2011), which won the 2010 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize, and What to Tell the Sleeping Babies (sunnyoutside, 2010). She lives in Central Harlem with her husband, Nick, and dog, Chuck. These two poems are taken from a book-length series titled Manhattations.