{"id":4847,"date":"2014-07-13T02:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T02:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2014-07-13T02:28:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T02:28:30","slug":"fukushima-forever-brooke-ellsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/07\/13\/fukushima-forever-brooke-ellsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Forever || Brooke Ellsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fukushima Forever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friend,<\/p>\n<p>I am looking at the thorny geometry of your death<\/p>\n<p>cities, of filial silence\u00a0 We climb the attic steps<\/p>\n<p>in secret and lay there under the torn insulation,<\/p>\n<p>More happy love\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More happy love<\/p>\n<p>Who are we\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At first<\/p>\n<p>the arrangement of our pants, cursive<\/p>\n<p>Here are some thoughts with forest branches\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some background when considering<\/p>\n<p>my application for the development grant of radical transactions of seduction<\/p>\n<p><em>I am lost in my price<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The progress of physics is unsystematic unlike the samba he said in a <em>surely you\u2019re joking <\/em>tone of voice The result being a series of firsts that seem to bring about the usual shoulder shrug seen after subsequent explosions\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is sufficiently consolidated and entered constantly\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It assumes sometimes too easily that results are secure and the house advances, thereby laying itself<\/p>\n<p>Open to further defenestration<\/p>\n<p>The naked ape is counting money, the attic allows<\/p>\n<p>A new generation appears and assumes the uncritical enthusiasm of youth<\/p>\n<p>Doubts ease through the tentative gropings of the subway<\/p>\n<p>Short-lived panting and warm foreheads\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Question,<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe it\u2019s possible that nostalgia would reorganize the civilian\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I feel<\/p>\n<p>for you <em>all the time<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I will not catalogue the <em>many horrors<\/em> of this world that could be reduced or eliminated\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it were embodied in the technologies that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You know these troubles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They are your carefully unrolled lungs, balanced\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You named them after the books on your mother\u2019s shelf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Come to think of it, I happen to be one of them\u00a0 We brassed every pair of boots placed in front of us<\/p>\n<p><em>Fenestra Fenestra<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is House Speaker chanting at each other over aperitifs<\/p>\n<p>as they slowly back away in dynamic<\/p>\n<p>antagonism\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can see all of this through the ceiling<\/p>\n<p>these objectives are mutually unafraid<\/p>\n<p>and as a result<\/p>\n<p>to convey something of<\/p>\n<p>probity and fucking<\/p>\n<p>when\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not supposed to<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learned all I can from sea stars<\/p>\n<p>By chance you choose not<\/p>\n<p>to look because you know nothing<\/p>\n<p>can be seen, what\u2019s possible and<\/p>\n<p>what\u2019s not\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heard melodies are cloying,<\/p>\n<p>those unheard are cloying,<\/p>\n<p>and yes,<\/p>\n<p>I think you agree with me<\/p>\n<p>in advance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fukushima Forever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I challenge children to silence his deathcity geometry,<\/p>\n<p>I am lookingdearfriend<\/p>\n<p>We are on the secret climbing We are the first whoceiling light, cursive on the plane<br \/>\nSafeandathome<br \/>\nSafefromthebourn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0P158bfXkP0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b>Brooke Ellsworth <\/b>is author of the chapbook, <i>Thrown<\/i> (The New Megaphone 2014).\u00a0 She has poems in or forthcoming in Coconut, DIAGRAM, Artifice, The Volta and elsewhere.\u00a0 She lives in Queens, NY and teaches at Parsons.\u00a0 <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukushima Forever &nbsp; &nbsp; Dear Friend, I am looking at the thorny geometry of your death cities, of filial silence\u00a0 We climb the attic steps in secret and lay there under the torn insulation, More happy love\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More happy love Who are we\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At first the arrangement of our pants, cursive Here are some thoughts [&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-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","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=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}