{"id":526,"date":"2009-10-03T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T12:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=526"},"modified":"2009-10-03T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T12:24:43","slug":"vincent-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/10\/vincent-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Turner:\u00a0<em> Weeds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weeds<\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Choked by a rope of early March mist<br \/>\nthe shed, undisturbed,<br \/>\nrots beyond\u00a0enemy green lines.<br \/>\nArmed with burial song<br \/>\nWe take our bitterness to them:<br \/>\nAt first, little more than aimless swinging of stick<br \/>\nas though soldiers fatigued by the brutality of war.<\/p>\n<p>Idly scything an opening,<br \/>\nwe happen upon the circumstance of your passing.<\/p>\n<p>In the summers of our youth<br \/>\nyou shouldered the weight of your realm,<br \/>\nthe echo of your spade clinking<br \/>\nagainst bone solid soil<br \/>\nCome dinner, your face was heat slapped and alive.<br \/>\nNovember nights were pithy-dark and cold.<\/p>\n<p>Your outline hide and seeking in the falling dusk<br \/>\nwe\u2019d uncover you by the\u00a0ember glow of your roll up.<\/p>\n<p>The lopped weeds begin to sting<\/p>\n<p>Recalling your technique we change<br \/>\ntack and unearth roots with frenzy<br \/>\nas if, by yanking away their presence<br \/>\nwe could lessen the weight of your absence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vincent Turner resides in London, he has been writing for some time now, but has only recently began to submit work to publishers and Zines, recently his work has appeared in GloomCupboard, Three Lights, ReadThisMagazine, and ShootsandVines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vincent works has a drug and alchol worker by day, and plays the part of an insomniac by night. You can read more of his work at <a href=\"http:\/\/fortherainfromthegrave.blogpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fortherainfromthegrave.blogpost.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Turner:\u00a0 Weeds Weeds Choked by a rope of early March mist the shed, undisturbed, rots beyond\u00a0enemy green lines. Armed with burial song We take our bitterness to them: At first, little more than aimless swinging of stick as though soldiers fatigued by the brutality of war. 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