{"id":3455,"date":"2012-11-06T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=465"},"modified":"2012-11-06T02:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T02:00:48","slug":"photoems-by-katie-menzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2012\/11\/06\/photoems-by-katie-menzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoems by Katie Menzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Photoem 1 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Body \u02c8b\u00e4d-\u0113 is the dancer\u2019s favorite word. Both crude, this mess of matter held in a thin skinned balloon, and yet sickly dexterous. The balloon tries its best to contain the sharp angles of mandible and femur, while also boating the goo, the stringy slop of our cranberry. But this structure of ours also has a thistle equilibrium. The grace of our feet with our head balancing on the wave of a spine <\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photoem 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>lungs open their pearly sacs in tunnel of wood ribs. this whale<br \/>\nshadow and light\u2014made by the keyhole of our mouths<br \/>\nwhen we open the lungs nets, an entire history of sun<br \/>\nis sucked down and irrigated<br \/>\nimagine       all the sky in our bodies this very moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the tide is low enough to almost walk out to the white<br \/>\nher waves are thin and long, the set<br \/>\nlike the glittery lines of crop<br \/>\nperfectly spaced; parallel<\/p>\n<p>The Sun            neon cream<br \/>\nThe sun            an electric cow eye<br \/>\nwincing above the sea farm<\/p>\n<p>surfers weave their cornhusks through the bushels of water<br \/>\nas if they are trying to sew   themselves     into      her<\/p>\n<p>it smells like s  moke<\/p>\n<p>a bonfire grave just feet from where I sit<br \/>\ngrey-blue topography of dead fire<br \/>\nsmells like wood and is beautiful heaped upon the mousy sand<br \/>\n___________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Kate Menzies<\/strong> is a poet, teacher, and writing coach in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her workshops show how writing can be utilized as a meditation. This summer her work can be seen in Gigantic Sequins 3.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoem 1 Body \u02c8b\u00e4d-\u0113 is the dancer\u2019s favorite word. Both crude, this mess of matter held in a thin skinned balloon, and yet sickly dexterous. The balloon tries its best to contain the sharp angles of mandible and femur, while also boating the goo, the stringy slop of our cranberry. But this structure of ours [&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-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","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=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}