{"id":263,"date":"2009-09-01T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-09-01T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:36:08","slug":"john-dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/09\/john-dorsey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>the year of the cat<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">John Dorsey, September 2009<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>i.<\/p>\n<p>my family lived in<br \/>\nlawton, oklahoma for the<br \/>\nbetter part of 1978<br \/>\nmore than 30yrs later<br \/>\njacob and i cruise<br \/>\ndown the highway<br \/>\nat 80mph and i<br \/>\nthink if we<br \/>\ncan just drive<br \/>\na little faster i<br \/>\nmight just be able<br \/>\nto get back there<br \/>\nwithout missing a beat<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0ii.<\/p>\n<p>my uncle jerry used<br \/>\nto pick me up<br \/>\non his harley wearing<br \/>\nplatform shoes or a<br \/>\ndrunken smile though rarely<br \/>\nboth at the same time<br \/>\nthinking about it<br \/>\ni miss him now<\/p>\n<p>iii.<\/p>\n<p>this morning i watched<br \/>\njuice&#8217;s cat sunning in<br \/>\nthe window in<br \/>\nft. collins co at 9:46am<br \/>\ninches away from where<br \/>\ni currently rest my<br \/>\nhead i look out<br \/>\ninto the parking lot<br \/>\nimagine an ice cream<br \/>\ntruck faintly playing<br \/>\nal stewart&#8217;s &#8220;year of the cat&#8221;<br \/>\ni bury my face<br \/>\ninto a couch<br \/>\ncushion like sunken treasure<\/p>\n<p>iv.<\/p>\n<p>i laugh like<br \/>\nthe love song of<br \/>\na broken hearted prairie dog<br \/>\nand sing a rocky<br \/>\nmountain seranade in the<br \/>\nmorning breeze until my<br \/>\ntongue catches the wind<\/p>\n<p>i have become a<br \/>\na fort sill daydream<\/p>\n<p>breathing out i exclaim<br \/>\nto a footless bird<\/p>\n<p>only the sun will<br \/>\nknow where i&#8217;ve buried my bones<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-354\" src=\"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dorsey-for-foc-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of several collections of poetry and has been published in a number of less than respectable <span id=\"lw_1250735214_0\">literary journals<\/span>. His work has recently been nominated for the <span id=\"lw_1250735214_1\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand\">Pushcart Prize<\/span>. He may be reached at <a href=\"http:\/\/us.mc1105.mail.yahoo.com\/mc\/compose?to=archerevans@yahoo.com\"><span id=\"lw_1250735214_2\">archerevans@yahoo.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the year of the cat John Dorsey, September 2009 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0i. my family lived in lawton, oklahoma for the better part of 1978 more than 30yrs later jacob and i cruise down the highway at 80mph and i think if we can just drive a little faster i might just be able to get back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-september-2009"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Dorsey - 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\/2009\/09\/john-dorsey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Dorsey - 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