{"id":3437,"date":"2011-11-12T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-11-12T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T08:43:06","slug":"2-poems-by-suzanne-marie-hopcroft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2011\/11\/12\/2-poems-by-suzanne-marie-hopcroft-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Poems by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>REFUSELISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orchids how sweet not to<\/p>\n<p>want you would be a felony<\/p>\n<p>they say do you know your<\/p>\n<p>rock heartless when you meet<\/p>\n<p>it on the sidewalk a yolk baby<\/p>\n<p>is frying up my brains won\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>break this will too soon so<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>give me just a few more<\/p>\n<p>millennia to trim the wick<\/p>\n<p>she tells me back away slow<\/p>\n<p>from the blaze is burning up<\/p>\n<p>her carnival ember pupils<\/p>\n<p>know a refrigerator when they<\/p>\n<p>see one two three pistol go!<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>MONEY\u00a0CAN\u2019T DO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Give me your breath and<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll sew you the<\/p>\n<p>moon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>what is this un-<\/p>\n<p>wisdom about putting the<\/p>\n<p>needle to tin and not to<\/p>\n<p>gauze your benjamins make<\/p>\n<p>a nice cloak in the day but<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m stitching up a prettier<\/p>\n<p>story with my thumbs and<\/p>\n<p>brain one that\u2019ll<\/p>\n<p>shine across your<\/p>\n<p>back as you rise and<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>fall seriously<\/p>\n<p>friend take the<\/p>\n<p>moon-milk and<\/p>\n<p>run<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>night-black<\/p>\n<p>away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>away<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suzanne Marie Hopcroft <\/strong>is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Yale University and writes from New York City.  Her poetry and fiction have recently appeared or will soon appear in PANK, Everyday Genius, and Gargoyle. Suzanne also teaches composition at Hostos Community College in the Bronx.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REFUSELISION \u00a0 Orchids how sweet not to want you would be a felony they say do you know your rock heartless when you meet it on the sidewalk a yolk baby is frying up my brains won\u2019t break this will too soon so &nbsp; give me just a few more millennia to trim the wick [&hellip;]<\/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-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","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=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}