{"id":2464,"date":"2014-04-21T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2464"},"modified":"2014-04-21T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:08:10","slug":"ralph-monday-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/ralph-monday-april-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Monday, April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bed and Binary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once, a sheet of paper could not be slipped<br \/>\nbetween us, atoms bouncing together<br \/>\nlike jumping jacks tossed by schoolgirls.<br \/>\nDays of creation stretched out like a<br \/>\ntightly pulled rubber band, a type<br \/>\nof wound fingertips organic spring,<br \/>\nsoles, eyelashes that in the animal dark<br \/>\nmoaned like the birth of hot wet seeds<br \/>\nin the rich loam of encounter.<br \/>\nNow, an artic crevasse unarticulated,<br \/>\nmemory pangs, has become our igloo.<br \/>\nSoft yellow fat, sweet smelling tallow<br \/>\nflickers only for a moment, burns<br \/>\nthrough the wrong end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Parting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Should I have you as a partner<br \/>\nor a stalker? One would be as<br \/>\nappropriate as another. Partners<br \/>\nalways turn into strangers at the door,<br \/>\nbadguy in a 1940s film noir.<br \/>\nWith your soft eyes, sharpened nails,<br \/>\nclaws that bind, you would partner<br \/>\nwith the stalker or stalk the partner.<br \/>\nSince the Mayan apocalypse has come<br \/>\nand gone, these days you can never tell\u2014<br \/>\nold photos say the same story:<br \/>\nA Rockette&#8217;s demise, World War II<br \/>\nnewspaper clippings, Elton John and<br \/>\ngoodbye Norma Jean\u2014all partners\u2014all<br \/>\npursued by the wizard in their heads.<br \/>\nYou would love the same, dance at<br \/>\nthe new year, prepare the feast for<br \/>\nthe table, ring the door; scale the<br \/>\nwalls of Troy, filet Odysseus, strip<br \/>\nthe jackets of men to sew a coat of<br \/>\nmany colors, cohabit with gypsy<br \/>\nSisters speaking your lost tongue,<br \/>\nuntil you partner with the sounds of space<br \/>\nstalking the last cathedral bell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Monday is an Associate Professor of English at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN., where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses. In fall 2013 he had poems published in <em>The New Plains Review, New Liberties Review, Fiction Week Literary Review<\/em>, and was represented as the featured poet with 12 poems in the December issue of <em>Poetry Repairs<\/em>. In winter 2014 he had poems published in <em>Dead Snakes<\/em>. Summer 2014 will see a poem in <em>Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology of Best Present Day Poems<\/em>. His work has appeared in publications such as <em>The Phoenix, Bitter Creek Review, Impressions, Kookamonga Square, Deep Waters, Jacket Magazine, The New Plains Review, New Liberties Review, Crack the Spine, The Camel Saloon, Dead Snakes and Poetry Repairs<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bed and Binary Once, a sheet of paper could not be slipped between us, atoms bouncing together like jumping jacks tossed by schoolgirls. 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