{"id":937,"date":"2010-11-05T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:53:08","slug":"david-watts-1110","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/david-watts-1110\/","title":{"rendered":"David Watts, 11\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Piece of Bone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suspect it was vertebra,<br \/>\ntwin domes of articulation<br \/>\nlike the split roof of an observatory,<br \/>\neye holes for the escape of nerves<br \/>\nfrom the (I presume there was one)<br \/>\nspinal cord. Held just right<br \/>\nit was a skull that could look at you<br \/>\nfrom any point in the room\u2014some<br \/>\nprehistoric marsupial with curved teeth<br \/>\nlike a very small wart hog.<\/p>\n<p>Found it scuffing around<br \/>\na dusty bone pile<br \/>\namong a bunch of cedar scraps<br \/>\nsomeone\u2019d chipped<br \/>\nout west of Austin. Jumped<br \/>\ninto my vision like a burning bush,<br \/>\nonly there wasn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n<p>Put it on my neckerchief<br \/>\ninstead of those burnished square knots<br \/>\nmost Scouts wear\u2014caused<br \/>\na lot of questions I didn\u2019t<br \/>\nhave answers to. I loved it<br \/>\nfor the mystery<br \/>\nand the distinction,<br \/>\nthat crackerjack anomaly<br \/>\nthat made it all come together<br \/>\nas if it said something about me<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t know myself.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed with me all the way<br \/>\nto the Eagle Scout photo<br \/>\nMrs. Cluck took at Cluck\u2019s<br \/>\nStudio with her camera<br \/>\nthat looked like a space station.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s gone.<br \/>\nThe photo\u2019s gone. And the little skull<br \/>\nwhich probably wasn\u2019t a skull. . .<\/p>\n<p>let\u2019s just say. . .<br \/>\nit found its way back to the bone pile<br \/>\nwhere no one asked its name.<\/p>\n<p><em>David Watts<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piece of Bone I suspect it was vertebra, twin domes of articulation like the split roof of an observatory, eye holes for the escape of nerves from the (I presume there was one) spinal cord. 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