A promise of gold holds them.
Lured by insidious snake tongues,
they\u2019ve discovered a bottomless share<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of days into nights. Drop your shifting
from the river\u2019s edge to your token
burlap sack of dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Locomotives hissing in the heat
steal your bread and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chuck it in. Call it what it is:
illusions conjured around a campfire
of desperation, feeding off desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A promise of gold holds them.Lured by insidious snake tongues,they\u2019ve discovered a bottomless share of days into nights. Drop your shiftingfrom the river\u2019s edge to your tokenburlap sack of dust. Locomotives hissing in the heatsteal your bread and water. Chuck it in. Call it what it is:illusions conjured around a campfireof desperation, feeding off desire. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/planetmitch-aunger-dOZmKYS5CDw-unsplash.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lynn Fanok\u2019s new collection of poems, Bread and Fumes, explores the cultural influences of her father\u2019s Ukrainian heritage, and the complexities of being the daughter of a WWII labor camp survivor. Lynn lives with her husband near dairy farms and her backyard is a forest. She leads a poetry series at an independent bookstore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"