{"id":3093,"date":"2017-07-24T03:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=3093"},"modified":"2017-07-24T03:36:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:36:52","slug":"john-grey-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-grey-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"John Grey, Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On My Side<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hoboken marsh –
\nno question.
\nThe local drugstore –
\nwithout a doubt.
\nI can’t go into battle without them.<\/p>\n

And then there’s tooth paste.
\nSalt Lake City and the gun
\nthat’s pointed at somebody else.
\nThose are my boys.<\/p>\n

No, they’re a regular posse –
\nHat Rock and Chevron and
\nthe newspaper obituary column.
\nNot forgetting the Grand Concourse,
\nartificial intelligence, dusk over Chicago
\nand CIA moles.<\/p>\n

If it was just myself,
\nI’d be lost
\nAn ant and a dragonfly
\nwould beat me back.
\nBut not when I’ve got
\na smog factory to back me up.
\nAnd real estate speculators.
\nAnd dysentery.
\nAnd the homeless millions.<\/p>\n

I live in the world.
\nI’m not here on a brief visit.
\nI breathe the air.
\nI stand on the ground.
\nI’m on equal footing
\nwith other guys
\nwho can say the same.<\/p>\n

We all have each other’s back.
\nEach other’s weather forecast.
\nEach other’s facial tics.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perfume<\/strong><\/p>\n

The place I sniff –
\nher moments as a perfume
\nlingering in a room,
\nenticing, encouraging
\nwhile all else is withheld.
\nprotected,
\nbut not this combination
\nof bergamot, oakmoss
\nand labdanum –
\nmy hands, my heart,
\nare at the ready
\nbut it’s my nostrils
\nthat make the initial breakthrough.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Fall<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One day,
\nlugging her groceries home from the store,
\nshe trips on the uneven pavement,
\nspilling bags in all directions.<\/p>\n

Cat food cans, milk cartons,
\neggs, frozen vegetables and spam,
\nfly in all directions.
\nA bag of apples breaks
\nand fruit roll into the gutter.
\nHer legs split sideways
\nand her dress rides halfway up her chest.<\/p>\n

The curious are now aware of
\nthe run in her stocking,
\nthe color of her underwear.
\nher clumsiness.
\nthe little she can afford to feed herself,
\nhow quick she is to sob
\nand to curse the world.<\/p>\n

The indifferent know
\nas much as they did before.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Cape Rock<\/em> and Columbia Review<\/em> with work upcoming in Louisiana Review, Poem and Spoon River Poetry Review. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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