<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After \u201cNature Boy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For lousy pay, I drove a van
between Detroit and Wapakoneta, Ohio,
spinning it once in a white-out storm
and sliding up the Luna Pier exit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to stamp and thaw among lost souls
in the moon\u2019s damp firehouse. Later,
I shot weddings, shingled roofs, herded<\/p>\n\n\n\n
children and was called, in each job,
by a different name. Adrift. While
he wrote about love, eden abhez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and his family camped out below
the Hollywood sign in forties L.A.
Today, they\u2019d be jailed. Picture his wife
braving the wind on dry nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe she<\/em> was the visionary. Only that he moved west and changed to unravel love, to get it or save it, like snow, while we turn wheels After \u201cNature Boy\u201d For lousy pay, I drove a vanbetween Detroit and Wapakoneta, Ohio,spinning it once in a white-out stormand sliding up the Luna Pier exit to stamp and thaw among lost soulsin the moon\u2019s damp firehouse. Later,I shot weddings, shingled roofs, herded children and was called, in each job,by a different name. Adrift. Whilehe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[345],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-lauchlan-michael"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/London-Bridge-with-moon-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
What do I know? I\u2019m tone deaf,
sipping coffee and reading wikis
amid the tremors of another time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
his name and slipped a hit to Nat Cole.
That they had to track him down
to sign the record contract. That we want<\/p>\n\n\n\n
though everything leads to return<\/em>,
love evaporating and falling like rain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
into swerves and utter strange
bird cries, waiting for a crunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"