{"id":4710,"date":"2014-04-06T01:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T01:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2014-04-06T01:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T01:58:56","slug":"brandon-lewis-elixir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/04\/06\/brandon-lewis-elixir\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Lewis || Elixir"},"content":{"rendered":"

__________________
\nElixir<\/strong>
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\nI never liked it when a lover called my skin soft<\/p>\n

of course it is soft. And my nerves<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings when their signals alarm<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

that the body burns<\/p>\n

as hills of bur-oak and bracken<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

subducted, compressed to metamorphic rock\u2014mouth of<\/p>\n

feldspar.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It would be simpler to kiss the electrical outlet when blue<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but I have mixed feelings about lights in the brain.<\/p>\n

At the sanitorium,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

what voltage did it take to dull great-grand-m\u00e8re<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Her 3 daughters unlatch, latch the garden gate so neatly.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hysteria\u2014womb<\/i>\u2014occurs without lesions or<\/p>\n

blood.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about the condom-fisherman\u2019s welfare<\/p>\n

as he combs the harbor for our benefit.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Why won\u2019t he hide his metal rod in the lightning storm?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tap the funny bone twice to call upon the destroyer.<\/p>\n

Ask him for a better joke.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This body is tired now but wants you to believe<\/p>\n

it can dance.<\/p>\n

__________________
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Brandon Lewis<\/strong> lives and teaches in NYC. He received an MFA in poetry at George Mason University and is the former poetry editor of Porcupine<\/i>. His writing is found or forthcoming in such journals as\u00a0Spinning Jenny<\/i>,\u00a0Salamander<\/i>,\u00a0Poet Lore,<\/i>\u00a0Harpur Palate, Fifth Wednesday, Entasis, Fogged Clarity, and Oranges and Sardines.<\/i>
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__________________ Elixir     I never liked it when a lover called my skin soft of course it is soft. And my nerves   I have mixed feelings when their signals alarm   that the body burns as hills of bur-oak and bracken   subducted, compressed to metamorphic rock\u2014mouth of feldspar.   It would be […]<\/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-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","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=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}