{"id":4017,"date":"2013-08-18T02:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2013-08-18T02:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T02:09:34","slug":"2-poems-abigail-zimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/08\/18\/2-poems-abigail-zimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Poems || Abigail Zimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Portrait of the Back of My Head<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s true I forgot how to open my mouth at night There is noise<br \/>\nand breath One night there was no breath but a long moment<br \/>\nof the impossible Then every night held the impossible and no<br \/>\nrunning just a small room eleven steps wide I couldn\u2019t go<br \/>\nfarther because outside are people who are also sad with exquisite<br \/>\nmethods for longing the sun back into play Mine is to fold<br \/>\ninto five corners This is the movement of leaves and petals<br \/>\nin response to darkness They are afraid of something large<br \/>\nagainst their skin North of here light is a triangle one can step<br \/>\ninto to become holy\u2014that is to be apart from feeling\u2014and people<br \/>\neat crowberries and redberries which are rich in Vitamin C and<br \/>\nexplosions Here a shard of day gets lodged under my fingernail<br \/>\nI fuck it so that the wanting is always present Once a man in<br \/>\nan empty room heard blood rushing in his ear and said true<br \/>\nsilence does not exist but I hear my name over and over<br \/>\nand cannot answer So what does that say about science<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n__________________________________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>My best friend says that <i>Horton Hears a Who<\/i> is an allegory for the impending zombie takeover.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOn the first day of the apocalypse the conductor stops calling out the names of where we are but I recognize Belmont because a drag queen is stealing your cell phone. The ghost train dips into the earth. There are halogen trees and fields of people discussing the just announced Pantone color of the year. We have all become designers. We are told to recycle, reuse, and repurpose. <i>Is it ok that I&#8217;m exploding all over?<\/i> I say. <i>There is a blue filter across your face<\/i>, you say, along with<i> I love your brain<\/i>. I give it to you because I am asking for Bieber\u2019s beautiful wave of adult hair and an elephantine ass like Billie Holiday must have had, had anyone thought to take a picture of her walking away.<br \/>\n__________________________________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Abigail Zimmer<\/strong> is an MFA Poetry candidate at Columbia College Chicago where she teaches first year writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in <em>Columbia Poetry Review, Black Tongue Review, Foothill,<\/em> and <em>A Bad Penny Review.<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of the Back of My Head &nbsp; It\u2019s true I forgot how to open my mouth at night There is noise and breath One night there was no breath but a long moment of the impossible Then every night held the impossible and no running just a small room eleven steps wide I couldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}