{"id":4624,"date":"2014-02-09T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T01:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2014-02-09T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T01:59:53","slug":"untitled-poems-pt-2-colin-winnette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/02\/09\/untitled-poems-pt-2-colin-winnette\/","title":{"rendered":"untitled poems pt. 2 || Colin Winnette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You held up a page on which you had written<br \/>\n<em>everything is ongoing.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe mistake was, there was still blood on it<br \/>\nand we were on surfboards.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo you experienced a shark attack,<br \/>\nand I witnessed a shark attack.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThey are more brutal than even the television<br \/>\nseems to understand.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd there is an unrelenting calm that surrounds<br \/>\nthem. The rest of the surface of the ocean<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthat isn\u2019t gory or frothing or churning or bubbling<br \/>\nbut is still and serene and perfect<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nand holds an image of the moon<br \/>\nwith these little lines moving through it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n____________________<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-BLAFEeRX8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n____________________<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe are on our backs at the top of a hill.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re giving the clouds human names like Leroy and Fred and Judy and Spacely.<br \/>\nYour teeth are falling out, one by one, and you\u2019re placing them in a sandwich bag.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no blood. <em>No pain, really<\/em>. Just tooth after tooth into the bag.<br \/>\nMy hands are palm down, taking root into the very top of the hill.<br \/>\nLeroy vanishes behind Fred, and Judy is only the fine mist of her former self.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t remember if teeth are bone or cartilage, or something else altogether.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t remember how to get home, or how we got here.<br \/>\nMermaids rise up out of the water stretched out before us.<br \/>\nWe can only make out their top halves. The bottom halves are assumed.<br \/>\nThey are like stones punctuating the miles and miles of visible ocean.<br \/>\nA pack of bears roams the edges of the hill\u2019s bottom, and they are fighting.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve developed some kind of rash on my elbows and neck.<br \/>\nHere is a list of everything we brought with us:<br \/>\nthree berry jam from Seattle<br \/>\nseeded crackers<br \/>\na blanket<br \/>\na tin full of water<br \/>\nfrozen grapes in a Ziploc<br \/>\na gun<br \/>\na cheese knife<br \/>\nbrie and something in wax that I can\u2019t pronounce<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________<br \/>\n<strong>Colin Winette<\/strong> did a book of fiction with Spork. We like his poems also.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You held up a page on which you had written everything is ongoing. &nbsp; The mistake was, there was still blood on it and we were on surfboards. &nbsp; So you experienced a shark attack, and I witnessed a shark attack. &nbsp; They are more brutal than even the television seems to understand. &nbsp; 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-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}