{"id":726,"date":"2019-01-17T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=726"},"modified":"2019-01-19T19:44:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:44:59","slug":"two-poems-by-lindsay-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/01\/17\/two-poems-by-lindsay-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems by Lindsay Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Lindsay Costello is a poet and art writer living in Portland, OR. Her chapbook So What if I&#8217;m Unfolding? was published in 2017, followed by Bloomswelling in 2018. Also in 2018, her digital poetry project Poetics of Space Angel was featured in the online exhibition <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/estranged.love\/\"><em>estranged.love<\/em><\/a><em>. Her work has appeared in Meadow&#8217;s Summer Field Guide, Pallas Magazine and SUSAN \/ THE JOURNAL. She studied textiles at the Oregon College of Art and Craft, where her thesis project analyzed the conceptual intersections between poetry and weaving. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\">Peaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between them a type of drowning.<br>A distance measured in carpeting<br>Or<br>The furry halo around a peach, or<br>That grey film of moving, seeing from a light place<br>To a dark place. Squinting.<br>That distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I waited in the ash-glow staring<br>At a lizard chasing itself, or nothing,<br>As screams rattled the windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father once convinced me that<br>Money lived in the ceiling.<br>Quarters mostly, nested in plaster,<br>Warm children.<br>I stood on a chair and reached for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\">Dripping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I already wonder about summer<br>\nAnd its beasts in bloom<br>\nAll becoming bats<br>\nHanging sweat and limb<br>\nChewing lettuce or watermelon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder about it<br>\nWhen one day an interruptive stillness<br>\nAnd a river somewhere halts<br>\nAnd limbs go bare and dry out<br>\nLike apricot leather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Costello is a poet and art writer living in Portland, OR. Her chapbook So What if I&#8217;m Unfolding? was published in 2017, followed by Bloomswelling in 2018. Also in 2018, her digital poetry project Poetics of Space Angel was featured in the online exhibition estranged.love. Her work has appeared in Meadow&#8217;s Summer Field Guide, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/01\/17\/two-poems-by-lindsay-costello\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">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-726","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-bI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}