69\u00b045’S 39\u00b05’E<\/p>\n
Translation<\/em>: Put your oar down and come with me.<\/p>\n Translation<\/em>: This is not an open city.<\/p>\n Translation<\/em>: The bar is closed, we’ve all gone home, we’ve got lives. Do you have a life? The keg is in the corner wrapped in a fishing net, the bar is closed.<\/p>\n Translation<\/em>: The way home is precisely the distance between you and the horizon.<\/p>\n Translation<\/em>: Everyone barefoot by now.<\/p>\n Translation<\/em>: Except you.<\/p>\n\n\n 90\u00b00′ S 0\u00b00′ W<\/p>\n The South Pole shudders at our approach.<\/p>\n In the Antarctic Circle, humans transmit like radio waves. Like lightning through water.<\/p>\n The South Pole is not in fact a pole.<\/p>\n The bald bottom of existence, shivering and doubting.<\/p>\n Darling–as in polarity.<\/em><\/p>\n Without some deep-set hopes and\/or beliefs, what is your purpose in coming?<\/p>\n The silence of the greatness of silence.<\/p>\n The long way out.<\/p>\n\n\n NOTHING: A DEFINITION<\/p>\n n. v. adv. adj. prep. pron. conj. <\/em>Tear. ( ). Miracle. Men. Grasping. “Ghost.” Profound-er. Particle. Blanket. Sheath. Margin. Total. Cuerpo<\/em>. Spanish: flee. Target. Miss-ter. Blink-er. Tank-er. Particle. Switz-er (-land). int.! int.! Law. Participle. A child (rearing). Blind-er. Major, unsung. What is there under a rock? Wheel well. Pinpoints. Connect the _______. Tranquilize-er. Business. Particle. Hero. Garment. Water, wine, air. _______ crawls across you for all time, leaving its claws in _______. Particle. Heart. Expansion set. Hadrian. Mast-er. Distance between in<\/em> and on<\/em> the wall. Cold and certain. “Ice.” Memory. Particle. Carve a mortar and pestle. Climb a tree. Release a child from your whim and look down.<\/p>\n\n\n Dennis James Sweeney<\/strong> is the author of the chapbook What They Took Away,<\/em> winner of the 2013 CutBank Chapbook Contest. At the moment he lives in Corvallis, Oregon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 69\u00b045’S 39\u00b05’E Translation: Put your oar down and come with me. Translation: This is not an open city. Translation: The bar is closed, we’ve all gone home, we’ve got lives. Do you have a life? The keg is in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}