{"id":12,"date":"1998-01-02T23:59:24","date_gmt":"1998-01-03T03:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greasymonkey.net\/MonkeyBLOG\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:00:03","slug":"trevor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Trevor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An English major at the University of North Texas in Denton. Trevor previously attended Southeastern Oaklahoma State University in Durant. He says, &#8220;I always thought I had an ear and a heart for poetry, but thanks to professor Randy Prus, I developed the honesty and dedication it takes to become a poet. I really owe him a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out this piece&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cemetery Season<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>we rode out like two<br \/>\namid decay and deformity<br \/>\nset abreast upon the life<br \/>\nwe once called love and home<br \/>\nran to the steps of dead religion<br \/>\nand entered without holy water<br \/>\nattendance placed us at a previously reserved setting<br \/>\nmade for two<\/p>\n<p>-this is the place i can not call home-<\/p>\n<p>attendees made of lace and starch<br \/>\nall believe to be individually whole,<br \/>\nbut i could see right through them<br \/>\nto you;<br \/>\nnot Love, but love.<br \/>\nthey wear their jewelry at dinner table<br \/>\nas they pass more wine<br \/>\nand i listen as my secrets are served raw to the orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>you and i are grown upon<br \/>\nby the weeds of deception<br \/>\nthey leave their edicts strewn<br \/>\namid our garden<br \/>\nthe tulips and the marigolds<br \/>\nshall never prosper<br \/>\nin this usury<br \/>\nnor pisces<br \/>\nnor leo<br \/>\nnor porcelina.<br \/>\nnear the wise oak<br \/>\nthe well rode two<br \/>\ndanced the minuet under a sophoclean moon<br \/>\nbut the wise oak never spoke<br \/>\nonly lifting her skin<br \/>\nto medicate melanomas<br \/>\nin the land of soft deceit<br \/>\nwithered faces trust labia intrusions<br \/>\nhearts that lie<br \/>\nmade of hearts that lay<br \/>\nwith every flower but Love.<br \/>\nmust life progress in their pangea of nothingness?<br \/>\nin the home<br \/>\nby the cut stone<br \/>\nnear our garden<br \/>\nwhere under our feet<br \/>\nthe lizards have flown&#8230;<br \/>\nand under our feet<br \/>\nthe place we can not call home.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English major at the University of North Texas in Denton. Trevor previously attended Southeastern Oaklahoma State University in Durant. He says, &#8220;I always thought I had an ear and a heart for poetry, but thanks to professor Randy Prus, I developed the honesty and dedication it takes to become a poet. 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