In the foreign lexicon,
\nthere is a word for space.<\/p>\n
It opens, and
\ncarpenter ants file out,<\/p>\n
forward momentum
\nof the villain and the god.<\/p>\n
Middle-class ennui
\nlacks stakes.<\/p>\n
What will advance the plot,
\nsave for Archimedes\u2019 proof,<\/p>\n
the caves of Lascaux,
\nan iridescent fly?<\/p>\n
Dead, I burrow deeply
\nin the earth\u2019s soft trough.<\/p>\n
I awaken to a two-car
\ngarage, flanked by<\/p>\n
a four-bedroom colonial,
\nand above it all\u2014the<\/p>\n
mirage of affluence\u2014
\na blue, all-sheltering sky.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Virginia Konchan<\/strong> is the author of a collection of poetry, The End of Spectacle <\/em>(Carnegie Mellon, 2018), a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift<\/em> (Noctuary Press, 2017), and two chapbooks, including That Tree is Mine (dancing girl press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic<\/em>, and Best New Poets<\/em>, and her honors include an NEH fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Award. Co-founder of Matter,<\/em> a journal of poetry and political commentary, and Associate Editor for Tupelo Quarterly<\/em>, she teaches at Marist College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the foreign lexicon, there is a word for space. It opens, and carpenter ants file out, forward momentum of the villain and the god. Middle-class ennui lacks stakes. What will advance the plot, save for Archimedes\u2019 proof, the caves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[21990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}