{"id":1100,"date":"2016-04-04T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:07:45","slug":"5-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/04\/5-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AFTER EMILY WILCOX\u2019S BEAST OF BURDEN<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beast of Burden by Emily Wilcox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

It is very cold,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there are strange stars near Arcturus,<\/p>\n

Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky<\/p>\n

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On the appointed day the north sky
Condemned us to a shared sun.<\/p>\n

We were too pure for burning light,
Too naked for wind and rock to honor.<\/p>\n

The arc of heaven saw fit
To blind us to familiar earth.<\/p>\n

They skinned us for a cloud voice
Who championed their dominion.<\/p>\n

Now fires are raging past the mountains,
Ships are plowing through blood seas<\/p>\n

Under the blackness of starfire,
And robes anoint us, exalt us,<\/p>\n

Imprison us to human holiness,
Hubris, and unalloyed recklessness.<\/p>\n

Bear greatness still beating in this breast
Weeps and rejoices for the glacier\u2019s melting.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

AFTER ERIN ASMUSSEN\u2019S DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

You were coming in through the wall
With the chattering teeth of the fly God<\/p>\n

Mouths opened one by one
From every shining pore
Of my body<\/p>\n

Letting in with the light
The meanings of light<\/p>\n

Behind which swinging door
Your body is twisting<\/p>\n

Around the tree
That is my body<\/p>\n

Baucis and Philemon
Or arboreal codependency<\/p>\n

Power of the tea leaves
Fiercer than any longing<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

AFTER ERIN ASMUSSEN\u2019S DEBUT<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
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Debut<\/em> by Erin Asmussen 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Debut<\/em> by Erin Asmussen 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I\u2019ll let you know
When the scorpions come<\/p>\n

When the balloons rise
Without your body<\/p>\n

And the monsters
Coveting your dress<\/p>\n

Settle for bloody tentacles
In your sewer kingdom<\/p>\n

From an inverted spire
You\u2019ll watch the space<\/p>\n

Where your skull was
Alighting in the mist<\/p>\n

White like smoke
Like a blind baby<\/p>\n

Born in the caves
Praying to be human<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

AFTER KEITH GOBLE\u2019S SWINGIN\u2019 HAMMERS<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swingin’ Hammers<\/em> by Keith Goble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Surely the structure fires have turned to plowshares.
Switchblade clouds wither and fade in the moonlight,<\/p>\n

A golden aura triangulates the eastern horizon,
And the quiet insistences of stone have risen<\/p>\n

With the granite fist and assembled masters
To tame an acre for a cache of souls.<\/p>\n

Trees and mountains retain their voices
In the bricks, inheriting through second sight<\/p>\n

Routes to the keyhole of builder\u2019s blood,
A covenant of sovereignty and sacrifice.<\/p>\n

A king has come to ratify a world,
And all the elements abide with him.<\/p>\n

The mind of the oak is in his hand
Driving its chi through the hammer\u2019s fall.<\/p>\n

The pounding heart of the mountain\u2019s core
Will never leave the music of these houses.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

RELIQUARY <\/p>\n\n\n

I love those spirits
That men stand off and point at,
Or shudder and hood up their souls-
Those ruined ones<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because where it ravages both past and future
Looked alluringly mortal in its animal decay.<\/p>\n

Because our magnetism for desolate places
Was neither cause nor cure but simple condition.<\/p>\n

Because the need for hatred had not yet
Found a source to reverse itself from.<\/p>\n

Because intimate fire and sacral water
Forge bonds stronger than vows of ghosts.<\/p>\n

Because what was ancient and alone
Renewed itself in the balmy Florida air.<\/p>\n

Because inside the man and woman
The boy and girl saw their likeness.<\/p>\n

Because the cold lights lit the void
With my glittering words to shield you.<\/p>\n

Because no sky will ever collapse on us
More crushing than the one we shared.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Simkins<\/strong> lives in Denver, Colorado. His poetry has been published in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Literary Orphans, Lost Coast Review, Nomadic Journal, and Wilderness House Literary Review,<\/em> among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Asmussen<\/a><\/strong> is an artist currently living in Deadwood, South Dakota after spending 16 years in Denver, Colorado while attending the Art Institute and performing a series of creative jobs including sculpting mannequins and large scale play lands. Erin found happiness in the art world and began to show her personal work in 2004, with a broad range from wood carving, papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9, recycled object art, clay, painting and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Goble<\/a><\/strong> is a painter and multimedia artist residing in Denver, Colorado. You can find him at Helikon Gallery in Studio #212 for most First Fridays and art events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Wilcox<\/a><\/strong> is originally from Kentucky, and currently based in Denver, where she makes oil paintings, collages, and drawings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFTER EMILY WILCOX\u2019S BEAST OF BURDEN It is very cold,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there are strange stars near Arcturus, Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Archibald MacLeish On the appointed day the north skyCondemned us to a shared sun. We were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926,21988],"tags":[22541,22539,22220,22540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}