{"id":2760,"date":"2016-04-11T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2760"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T15:23:21","slug":"joseph-ellison-brockway-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/joseph-ellison-brockway-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Ellison Brockway, April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Return to Sender (Rorschach Test #1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Walk.<\/p>\n

Keep walking<\/p>\n

until you find something<\/p>\n

familiar<\/p>\n

Unfamiliar surrounds<\/p>\n

Flashes of light<\/p>\n

Scream<\/p>\n

Frowning faces<\/p>\n

Blue streaks<\/p>\n

Crash<\/p>\n

Wilting flowers<\/p>\n

White explosions<\/p>\n

Fall<\/p>\n

Rising dust<\/p>\n

Green blips<\/p>\n

Burn<\/p>\n

Passing clouds<\/p>\n

Red splatters<\/p>\n

Shoot<\/p>\n

Swaying trees<\/p>\n

Gold waves<\/p>\n

Twist<\/p>\n

Trickling stream<\/p>\n

Purple splotches<\/p>\n

Feel<\/p>\n

Blowing wind<\/p>\n

Yellow static<\/p>\n

Vomit<\/p>\n

Forming dew<\/p>\n

Flashes of light<\/p>\n

Wake up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The fax machine answers and<\/p>\n

from out of the receiver<\/p>\n

I am born into this world.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Everything is new<\/p>\n

to me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to walk<\/p>\n

anymore.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Please return me to<\/p>\n

sender.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Black Splotches (Rorschach Test #2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

black splotches<\/p>\n

my mother<\/p>\n

a sprawled turtle<\/p>\n

spilt milk<\/p>\n

pointed breasts<\/p>\n

ladder saving a cat<\/p>\n

my father<\/p>\n

letter q<\/p>\n

nose on a treetop<\/p>\n

swiss cheese<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

slant left<\/p>\n

not turtle, dog paw<\/p>\n

not milk, umbrella<\/p>\n

a ladder down a sewer<\/p>\n

my nose on top of a j<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

upside down<\/p>\n

two pointed breasts<\/p>\n

now shriveled testicles<\/p>\n

black splotches<\/p>\n

me<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Joseph Ellison Brockway is a bilingual poet, translator, and educator.\u00a0 He’s currently working on his Ph.D. in Studies of Literature and Translation at the University of Texas at Dallas.\u00a0 He likes to experiment with poems that explore the human psyche and ways to manipulate language.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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