{"id":1016,"date":"2009-09-05T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2009-09-05T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T23:56:24","slug":"new-american-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/05\/new-american-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishmuseum.org\/onlinecollection\/oci\/nov08allgood\/w325h450\/tri_44785_2006-64-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Sarah Bernhardt by Andy Warhol\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishmuseum.org\/onlinecollection\/oci\/nov08allgood\/w325h450\/tri_44785_2006-64-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ll stake the embodiment.<br \/>\nA deadly priestess dresses the aisle during Lent.<br \/>\nDepressing as it may seem,<br \/>\nthe little lecterns take their places in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Washing Mary cold and foot,<br \/>\nthe diesel engines blast down to the blessed root.<br \/>\nActual fire stretches the islands leg,<br \/>\nand individual pieces can only stray out and beg.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t their fault in the beginning.<br \/>\nThey thought this ritual had an ending.<br \/>\nA pitied the boy dressed up in a mask<br \/>\nAnswered questions that no one could ask.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the candles out there. Watch the candles fall.<br \/>\nDressed up like an Angel. Dressed up like a doll.<br \/>\nAll winter she waited for the snow dove&#8217;s feathery song.<br \/>\nIt flew through the flickery flame the darkest, most silent of them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll stake the embodiment. A deadly priestess dresses the aisle during Lent. Depressing as it may seem, the little lecterns take their places in the scene. Washing Mary cold and foot, the diesel engines blast down to the blessed root. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/05\/new-american-poetry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}