It\u2019s hard to see beyond the drizzling winters.
Restaurants closing.
Apartments falling into the street at night,
without noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And after the naming I always think I hear screams on the moon. Maybe it\u2019s where catamites conceive and are born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe they don\u2019t believe in the Earth, An Asperger\u2019s teenager And on a world A woman shivers in his shallow troughs of worry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n the only angels left, It\u2019s hard to see beyond the drizzling winters.Restaurants closing.Apartments falling into the street at night,without noise. And after the namingof the deserted pigeon parks,the people listen to the anti-ratflight podcasts:let the fetuses live,let them be born and toldthere will be nothingbut a life of school followed by a life of hiding. I always think I … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-AT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
of the deserted pigeon parks,
the people listen to the anti-
ratflight podcasts:
let the fetuses live,
let them be born and told
there will be nothing
but a life of school followed by a life of hiding.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the rain that\u2019s lost there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
its gazing wound of snow and wind
that can\u2019t be proven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dismantles the thoughts of the one who said,
\u201cTell me what you are, I do not know what you are\u201d
upon his shaky walk-by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of subtle lightning mountains
that do not end,
he copies and pastes the spinal foliage,
adding color, thinking he, too, can create summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
from the face he uses for \u201chello,\u201d
and quickly turns away
because she can see them there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
scavenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rob Cook\u2019s most recent book is The Charnel House on Joyce Kilmer Avenue (Rain Mountain Press, 2018). His work has appeared or will appear in Epiphany, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, great weather for Media, Rhino, Caliban, deComp, Interim, On the Seawall, Borderlands, Barren, The Bitter Oleander, Hotel Amerika, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. He is currently working on a novella.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"