{"id":408,"date":"2018-10-02T04:09:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-08-20T04:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T04:18:27","slug":"poetry-by-wk-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/02\/poetry-by-wk-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by WK Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"
WK Lawrence is the author of the novel The Punk and the Professor. He holds an MFA from the Southampton Writers’ Program and a doctorate in education from Northeastern University. Born and raised in New York, he has also lived in Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Rhode Island. He currently lives in North Carolina, teaches writing at NC State University, and directs the NC State Young Writers’ Workshops.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Closed<\/h3>\n

These are the vapors around the rising sun\u2014
\nThe common man that opens learning eyes.
\nThe strong rise on what the weak rely on
\nUntil they speak with new leader high
\nAbove with the great spirit on his side
\nAnd victory follows upon our time
\nOf world peace and unity
\nAnd we have made greatness our companion
\nUntil the hourglass is once again flipped
\nWhen the common man closes his eyes to the sun.<\/p>\n

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The Court Yard<\/h3>\n

The sycamore speaks in the night.
\nRhododendrons in full bloom below
\nAnd beside a brick wall
\nWith ivy running up and around
\nChoking the wall, masking it.
\nUnmendacious and inscrutable.
\nThere\u2019s a beast who goes in and out
\nA hole in the wall along the bottom
\nWithout paying a single toll
\nUnfazed by what is on either side
\nWaiting for it to fall into the teeth of consequence.<\/p>\n

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Book of Faces<\/h3>\n

Read this book of faces
\na common determiner of fate
\na place to show your fears
\nin the very way you hide your tears
\nin photographs that don\u2019t measure
\nthe loneliness in the room
\nor the addiction to bodies, parties,
\njust people in a room
\nto save you from the thriller
\nof an empty space
\nwhere most don\u2019t go until they\u2019re dead
\nbecause they wouldn\u2019t know how to survive
\nwith a door closed
\nlong enough to get to know themselves
\nso it\u2019s a show
\nand tell
\nring the bells of lunacy
\nwaste your time
\nin a world of buoyancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WK Lawrence is the author of the novel The Punk and the Professor. He holds an MFA from the Southampton Writers’ Program and a doctorate in education from Northeastern University. Born and raised in New York, he has also lived in Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Rhode Island. He currently lives in North Carolina, teaches writing … 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-6A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}