{"id":134,"date":"2022-04-17T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jy.watchtheskies.org\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2022-04-17T01:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:04:53","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jy.watchtheskies.org\/?page_id=134","title":{"rendered":"Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In Transit<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the grey green skies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the wailing wall on Liark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I write your name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the lucid petrol tears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sliding down the slick blue facade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">. . . jump . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whippet trees lash\u00ad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Troina&#8217;s gentle breezes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their glossy lengths airborne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scourging my outstretched arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desperate to pare memory away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">. . . jump . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wading in the venom gardens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thoughts like contortions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blinding sun of Chamnatol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Illuminates best hidden truths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are four years given to every . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">. . . jump . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above slow circling Kthshod<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I drink to your silent corpse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A life winked out inside four year\u2019s span<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I jump this existence away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To return the only way I know how<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">. . . jump . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">{Nominated for Pushcart Award by Dimensionfold Press}<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jy.watchtheskies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eccentric-Orbits-Book-2.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81\" 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