{"id":3430,"date":"2011-06-30T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-06-30T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:30:20","slug":"three-poems-by-carrie-lorig-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2011\/06\/30\/three-poems-by-carrie-lorig-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three poems by Carrie Lorig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

What a catchy meat
\nthis is.<\/p>\n

What a mighty shelf life
\nthese deflated berries have.<\/p>\n

Inside the small burial
\nmounds,<\/p>\n

ash follows
\ncircles for days.<\/p>\n

&nbsp<\/div>\n

——<\/p>\n

Medium<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Run a beach and then
\njust fall over
\nand you
\nwill get a strawberry.<\/p>\n

My heart,
\nthe great stupid
\nblue whale.<\/p>\n

Bruise is his shadow,
\nand Bruise has
\nnever even been
\nin the ocean. <\/p>\n

On the blood\u2019s edge,
\nhe builds castles in all
\nkinds of shades
\nof nail,<\/p>\n

and he is in love
\nwith his polluted
\nsense of dusk.<\/p>\n

Bruise holds
\na glimmer picked
\nup from the dirty
\nfloor.<\/p>\n

&nbsp<\/div>\n

——<\/p>\n

Large<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let your dark skin collect
\nthe rain and whatever else
\nit pulls
\ndown with it.
\nLet the weak fossil
\nwork.
\nLet it work its way
\ninto your squinting sugary
\ndates.
\nLet the pit feel
\nbruised by the skin
\nfor once.
\nLet the marooned
\npopsicle
\nkiss run us
\ndown.
\nLet me shower
\ncap your kneecap.
\nLet the cloud\u2019s small
\naccent form
\nyour movements.
\nLet me hear the traces
\nof heated lavender
\ndragging.
\nLet what\u2019s left of
\nthe whale song tear
\napart your water.
\nLet what\u2019s left collect
\nin the used bread
\nbag the dark skin
\ncarries.<\/p>\n

&nbsp<\/div>\n

——<\/p>\n

Carrie Lorig<\/strong> was raised mostly in Wisconsin and continues to be aged by Korean magnolia trees, record player crackles, and the month of July. She is a bike messenger, but is giving it up to start the MFA program at the University of Minnesota in the fall. She has been published by elimae<\/i>, Pop Serial<\/i>, decomP<\/i>, Miracle Monocle<\/i>, and Word Riot<\/i>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small What a catchy meat this is. What a mighty shelf life these deflated berries have. Inside the small burial mounds, ash follows circles for days. &nbsp —— Medium Run a beach and then just fall over and you will get a strawberry. My heart, the great stupid blue whale. Bruise is his shadow, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}