{"id":4559,"date":"2014-01-05T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2014-01-05T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:00:41","slug":"4559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/01\/05\/4559\/","title":{"rendered":"Mers-Les-Bains || Ansley Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mers-Les-Bains<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI love this quiet the surviving<br \/>\ndrug trade like ocean ash<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nfirst came the drought then the fallen roads then<br \/>\nthe littered wind<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ndogs milling about<br \/>\namong the debris crush<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthen a stranger came at noon<br \/>\npicked up from the dust<br \/>\na fistful of heart wounds like dice<br \/>\nshook and released them like flies<br \/>\ninto the heat haze<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nat night silent tribes of white deer like hills<br \/>\nsurround what remains to grieve with us<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI love the ocean because<br \/>\nit has no tracks or direction<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthe arch of oil light burns<br \/>\nall night between separate islands<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI think we all just need<br \/>\nto disappear from each other more.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n_________________________<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YSPEoKLY77o?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YSPEoKLY77o?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Ansley Clark<\/strong> is a first year MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder where she also teaches introductory creative writing. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Colorado and has work forthcoming in <em>The Legendary<\/em>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mers-Les-Bains &nbsp; I love this quiet the surviving drug trade like ocean ash &nbsp; first came the drought then the fallen roads then the littered wind &nbsp; dogs milling about among the debris crush &nbsp; then a stranger came at noon picked up from the dust a fistful of heart wounds like dice shook and [&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-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}