Small audience
for this matinee.<\/p>\n
Movie screen light
like a holy door’s.<\/p>\n
Like a blonde girl’s
hair in a sports car.<\/p>\n
By the sea, dead
teens do The Frug.<\/p>\n
(Radios pick up
ghosts, supposedly.<\/p>\n
Mumbling ones.
Mute lamentations.<\/p>\n
A camera can pull
soul through the eye.<\/p>\n
(Pneuma: That which A dog in a scarf Their dance is soft An umbrella is swept A few fruggers Someone points, but to a place where The bonfire flutters. The lovers all leave. Phones start to buzz, The theater lights Justin Runge<\/strong> lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he serves as poetry editor of Parcel. He is the author of two chapbooks, Plainsight (New Michigan Press, 2012) and Hum Decode (Greying Ghost Press, 2014). His work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Portland Review, DIAGRAM,<\/em> and elsewhere. He can be found atwww.justinrunge.me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Small audiencefor this matinee. Movie screen lightlike a holy door’s. Like a blonde girl’shair in a sports car. By the sea, deadteens do The Frug. (Radios pick upghosts, supposedly. Mumbling ones.Mute lamentations. A camera can pullsoul through the eye. (Pneuma:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
is breathed or blown.)<\/em><\/p>\n
runs past the teens.<\/p>\n
in the sand, silent.<\/p>\n
toward the waves.<\/p>\n
go running after.<\/p>\n
not to the sunset,<\/p>\n
it can best be seen.<\/p>\n
The dog is asleep.<\/p>\n
Ushers in the wings.<\/p>\n
play little melodies.<\/p>\n
rise, not as holy.<\/p>\n\n\n