{"id":10112,"date":"2019-02-03T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2019-02-15T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:59:36","slug":"3-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10112","title":{"rendered":"3 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Prayer to dune and dun<\/h5>\n<p>potatoes leaving<br \/>\nlike Margaret\u2019s summerfall<\/p>\n<p>beginning this year<br \/>\npreparing for the next<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\twe\u2019re on our knees<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\twith seasons<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\t\t\tovertaking <\/p>\n<p>flowered onion ha ha wall the oso easy rose <\/p>\n<p>on our knees<br \/>\nhumbled by the seas<\/p>\n<p>relocating plinth of lawn<br \/>\npurple aster paling, emigrating<br \/>\nfrom the inner bay to the Atlantic <\/p>\n<p>on our knees<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;training <\/p>\n<p>old witch panic that can<br \/>\ntake the spray<br \/>\nlay down in the<br \/>\nstorm <\/p>\n<p>bounce<br \/>\nback up again<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h5>Song and fatted heart<\/h5>\n<p>Feederflocked, tuned to fluting<br \/>\n<em>whee-uu whee-uu whitwhit<\/em><br \/>\nmy ears were once the porches<br \/>\nmy hunger like the finches<br \/>\nfor the caviar in nyjerthistle<br \/>\nseedsocked. Safflower. Sun-<br \/>\nflower. How now?<br \/>\nWith only fillercorn and millet<br \/>\ncontent. The squirrelspill hull.<br \/>\nThere was a time I spotted<br \/>\nin the nest. Wintered in the bushes.<br \/>\nThere was the time I shattered glass. <\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h5>Hoof and nail, standing<\/h5>\n<p>Mailboxes hint<br \/>\nthere\u2019s a living to be made in idle chewing\u2014<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\tthe dappled-<\/p>\n<p>cream and spotted,  black\u2014none too fancy,<br \/>\nnone so different that<br \/>\nI think of taking on a path <\/p>\n<p>going elsewhere but along these fields and pastures<br \/>\nstitched with trees and hidden<br \/>\ndriveways, the grass<br \/>\noblivious to fences. <\/p>\n<p>A barn door opens. Hay makes hay. I make up colors:<br \/>\n<em>graymarine pearledblue palesence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See how the vane\u2019s a fickle swiveling? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer to dune and dun potatoes leaving like Margaret\u2019s summerfall beginning this year preparing for the next &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; we\u2019re on our knees &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; with seasons &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; overtaking flowered onion ha ha wall the oso easy rose on our knees humbled by the seas relocating plinth of lawn purple aster paling, emigrating from the inner bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[371,372],"tags":[375],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Poems - The Manchester Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10112\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10112&page=2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Poems - The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prayer to dune and dun potatoes leaving like Margaret\u2019s summerfall beginning this year preparing for the next &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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