Not far off the farm, we stumble a
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0truck rut track smack into frack-
\ning, hardhats and klieg lights. No<\/p>\n
fence or barbed wire, bare zone
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of a work site, hilltop and dirt
\nbed, gravel and warnings\u2014bag-<\/p>\n
gage that towers the river. Lines
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of porta-potties under a big god
\n-forsaken rigged-out and gaudy <\/p>\n
crane-looking thing, it\u2019s a beacon
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for miles, without moratoriums
\nhere, pumping 24\/7. Factions and<\/p>\n
splinter groups, senators, PACs,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0each send out their peoples to snap-
\nshoot and leer, test or just protest<\/p>\n
Marcellus shale. Leaning, one guy
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0takes his smoke break and gives us
\nthe eye, but we see only shades;<\/p>\n
he just tilts up a head, nods off
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0our direction, beyond fecund gulfs
\nwhere quick reeds swallow green<\/p>\n
toads, shallow glades, steep grades
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of a meadow, cricketing, croaking
\nfor miles, no nondisclosure since <\/p>\n
not undersigned. Under this shadow:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the unbroken horse you\u2019ve fed baby\u2019s
\nbreath, core of an apple. Turning <\/p>\n
for home, out of roaming, down
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0dusty lanes \u201cnot approved for gas
\nco. use,\u201d by stables made over, trash <\/p>\n
fire unwatched, a retrofit plowshare
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0landscaped as maybe some whale
\nfluke, mailboxes chunky as lard<\/p>\n
cans, and yards sunk under lawn
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0junk, hole-fills, rotor-tilled gardens,
\npast pipelines, past privet, a sign <\/p>\n
that proclaims \u201cfree manure\u201d His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Brooklyn Review, Harpur Palate, La Fovea, Baltimore Review, Leveler, Dirt, Waccamaw, Paradigm, Verse Wisconsin, Prick of the Spindle, Sentence, A cappella Zoo, Jacket, The Prose Poem Project, Carte Blanche, Poetry Quarterly, Spiral Orb, Barely South Review, decomP magazinE, L.E.S. Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Canary, And\/Or, Third Wednesday, Crann\u00f3g, <\/em>and Word for\/Word. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not far off the farm, we stumble a \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0truck rut track smack into frack- ing, hardhats and klieg lights. No fence or barbed wire, bare zone \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of a work site, hilltop and dirt bed, gravel and warnings\u2014bag- gage that towers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[21991],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWilliam Cordeiro<\/strong> has previously worked as a NYC Teaching Fellow, a staff writer at the theater magazine offoffonline<\/em>, and an assistant editor of Epoch<\/em>. He has an MFA in poetry from Cornell, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying 18th century British literature. He is also the co-founder of Brooklyn Playwrights Collective and have had several plays produced in regional and off-off-Broadway venues, including a libretto performed at the Johnson Museum of Art. For two years he has been the Artist-in-Residence at Risley Residential College. He has also received residencies from the Provincetown Community Compact, Ora Lerman Trust, and Petrified Forest National Park. <\/p>\n