{"id":4498,"date":"2013-12-08T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2013-12-08T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T10:30:30","slug":"2-poems-beth-towle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/12\/08\/2-poems-beth-towle\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Poems || Beth Towle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>rhabdomancy<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nwater is cursed<br \/>\nwith memory or at least<br \/>\nthat is what we fear<br \/>\nghosts hunt beneath its surface<br \/>\nghosts cling to the skiff oars<br \/>\ncling to boat bottoms<br \/>\nand scratch to keep<br \/>\nus up at night<br \/>\nwe have no problem<br \/>\nwith empty ghosts<br \/>\nwho wear their skin bubbled<br \/>\ntheir heads like foam<br \/>\nwe like the sound of ghost<br \/>\nbabble coming through the sonar<br \/>\nlike the way words have no meaning<br \/>\nthose ghosts don\u2019t bother<br \/>\nthe ones that bother us<br \/>\nare the haunted ones<br \/>\nthe heavy ones<br \/>\nthe ones who press down<br \/>\non the divining stick<br \/>\nthe ones who tell us to look down<br \/>\nbut never fully show themselves<br \/>\nthey sing songs in the sonar<br \/>\nthat make perfect sense<br \/>\nghosts are always humming<br \/>\nthe water is rhapsodic<br \/>\nover all future drownings<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<strong>we are in the business of undoing<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nether is the thing<br \/>\nwe breathe it like regular men<br \/>\na few gasps off maybe<br \/>\nwe all go a little bit dead sometimes<br \/>\nskip a heartbeat<br \/>\nskip a breath<br \/>\nwe go limp in the joints<br \/>\ngo a bit wasted<br \/>\nslide our heads back in mud<br \/>\nand damn up our insides<br \/>\nso nothing gets in<br \/>\nwe will death<br \/>\na nice moment to think<br \/>\nsurely no one misses us<br \/>\nif no one else is missed<br \/>\nwe all get<br \/>\na little undone<br \/>\nlay for a minute in the grave<br \/>\nbefore we step out again<br \/>\nwe are nothing<br \/>\nif not resurrected<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n__________<br \/>\n<strong>Beth Towle <\/strong>is from northern Indiana, where all the swamps have gone extinct but still haunt her constantly.  She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 2013.  She is a co-founder and contributing editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actuarylit.com\">Actuary Lit (www.actuarylit.com)<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rhabdomancy &nbsp; water is cursed with memory or at least that is what we fear ghosts hunt beneath its surface ghosts cling to the skiff oars cling to boat bottoms and scratch to keep us up at night we have no problem with empty ghosts who wear their skin bubbled their heads like foam we [&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":[12,73,114],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things","tag-beth-towle","tag-notre-dame-mfa","tag-two-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}