{"id":3029,"date":"2017-07-23T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=3029"},"modified":"2017-07-25T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T02:48:08","slug":"adrian-slonaker-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/adrian-slonaker-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Slonaker, Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cold Angry Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cold angry sea,<br \/>\nable to level whole towns, whole lives.<br \/>\nThere you stood,<br \/>\nslab-like back turned to me,<br \/>\nforceful in faux leather and real denim,<br \/>\ncontemplating<br \/>\nharsh spray from waves,<br \/>\nharsh criticism from seagulls.<\/p>\n<p>Bland tired room,<br \/>\nwashed-out wallpaper wilting.<br \/>\nThere I stand,<br \/>\nthickset in thrift shop corduroy,<br \/>\nunable to come to terms<br \/>\nwith the complexities of the coffeemaker<br \/>\nor the radiator hissing steam<br \/>\nto chase off the chill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>January Air<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the festive fires burn out<br \/>\nwith the last oversucked cigarette butts of New Year&#8217;s resolvers,<br \/>\nJanuary air arrives<br \/>\nlike a spray of icy peppermint oozing down the throat,<br \/>\nnew as the year that won&#8217;t be written correctly for weeks,<br \/>\nfresh as the gym membership and tax help ads adorning TV screens.<br \/>\nHoliday hubbub is hijacked by calm,<br \/>\npunctuated by crackling ice or thawed wetness,<br \/>\npremature nights coated by cryptic clouds<br \/>\nand the salient uncertainty of our whereabouts<br \/>\nwhen Guy Lombardo&#8217;s ghost rises again in December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Slonaker lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, working as a copywriter and copy editor, with interests that include vegetarian cooking, Slavic languages, Victorian horror fiction, wrestling, and 1960s pop music. Adrian&#8217;s work has appeared in <em>Better Than Starbucks, CC&amp;D,<\/em> and <em>Dodging the Rain<\/em>, and publication in <em>Ginosko Literary Journal<\/em> is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Angry Sea &nbsp; Cold angry sea, able to level whole towns, whole lives. There you stood, slab-like back turned to me, forceful in faux leather and real denim, contemplating harsh spray from waves, harsh criticism from seagulls. Bland tired room, washed-out wallpaper wilting. There I stand, thickset in thrift shop corduroy, unable to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":934,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adrian Slonaker, Summer 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/adrian-slonaker-summer-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adrian Slonaker, Summer 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cold Angry Sea &nbsp; Cold angry sea, able to level whole towns, whole lives. 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