{"id":3040,"date":"2017-07-24T00:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=3040"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:06:50","slug":"gale-acuff-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/gale-acuff-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Gale Acuff, Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Far Gone<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m trying to dig a hole to China
\nthis Sunday morning. I’ve laid out of church
\nto do it and I suppose God’s watching.
\nI feel as if He’s glaring down at me
\nbut it’s really the sun–we see it more
\nthan we see God but we worship God more.
\nOr maybe we don’t but just think we do.
\nAnd of course we see the moon a lot, too.
\nIt would be like Jesus–I’m not sure why<\/p>\n

but while I’m at it there are all those stars
\nat night, though they’re always out there, even
\nin the light. They’re like angels, I suppose.
\nSatan’s at the center of the earth, where
\nit’s hot, even hotter than here, right now.<\/p>\n

I’m tired. I’ve been shoveling all morning
\nand maybe I’m just a few inches deep
\nbut if effort counts for anything then
\nI’m well into something. That’s what God’s for
\n–to give me credit when even I won’t
\ndo it. I’m hot and thirsty and hungry
\nand homely and lonely and stupid and<\/p>\n

maybe I’m deeper than I think but just
\nhaven’t got enough faith–if I had faith
\nthen I’d know how far gone I really am.
\nIf I were a true believer then soon
\nI’d be at the center of the earth or
\nbreaking through to a cave or tunnel and
\nfollowing it down to the middle or
\nsneaking around the walls of Hell to find<\/p>\n

China just waiting on the other side.
\nBut I’m already on the other side
\n–my own: it’s the other side to China.
\nSo I’ve reached my destination but it’s
\nwhere I’ve begun. And if I’d really gone
\nI’d just be coming back again (I think),
\nso I’ve come full circle without leaving.<\/p>\n

It’s a pretty neat trick, to come back home
\nwithout leaving it. A miracle, even.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ascent, Ohio Journal, Descant, Poem, Adirondack Review, Coe Review, Worcester Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Arkansas Review, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education,<\/em> and many other journals. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel<\/em> (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World<\/em> (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives<\/em> (BrickHouse, 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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