{"id":529,"date":"2018-11-15T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-10-19T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:54:21","slug":"poems-by-william-doreski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/11\/15\/poems-by-william-doreski\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by William Doreski"},"content":{"rendered":"
William Doreski’s work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently A Black River, A Dark Fall (2018).<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Horizontals<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s live in a neutral gray house by the water. Plenty of light, an indigo sea, weedy yellow foreground, and the house hedged by overgrown pasture rose. Horizontals dominate. Even the vertical planes of the house, the slopes of roof, the gables, the two thumbs of chimney crouch behind or between parallel strata.<\/p>\n

But the sea\u2014so much breadth and depth looming in the corners of our eyes, even when we look into each other and sigh those long-delayed sighs. One electric pole critiques the horizontals sketching our frontage. Only one, and it has to carry enough power to illuminate the night-distance from Gay\u2019s Head to Cape Hatteras.<\/p>\n

As we settle into the house and ourselves we\u2019ll expand like the sea, filling ourselves with sea; and when we sleep after a long day of booming skies we\u2019ll drown into a horizontal dream-world half a planet wide.<\/p>\n

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Art Deco Coffee<\/h3>\n

One urn of coffee and one
\nof Ceylon black iced tea pose<\/p>\n

in a fanfare of Art Deco
\nstainless steel. A bas-relief<\/p>\n

rayed with pleated exuberance
\nendows this service with something<\/p>\n

like a dawn of pure revelation.
\nAgainst such a ripe background<\/p>\n

the urns, coolers, pitchers, stacked
\nplastic glasses look refreshed<\/p>\n

and eager to serve the public
\nin a style that long ago<\/p>\n

the Depression-era embraced.
\nRenewing the Art Deco world<\/p>\n

even in a crummy old diner
\nalerts the most sluggish mind<\/p>\n

to broader and deeper perspectives.
\nBesides, the coffee is pretty good.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait for the waitress.
\nPour yourself a cup and simmer<\/p>\n

in the gleam of antique metal
\nthat outshines us all our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Doreski’s work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently A Black River, A Dark Fall (2018).   Horizontals Let\u2019s live in a neutral gray house by the water. Plenty of light, an indigo sea, weedy yellow foreground, and the house hedged by overgrown pasture rose. Horizontals dominate. … 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-529","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-8x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}