{"id":765,"date":"2010-04-12T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=765"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:54:55","slug":"john-grey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2010\/04\/john-grey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"

GETTING OVER A SICKNESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A week into the recovery,<\/p>\n

I found myself on solid ground.<\/p>\n

I was back to language and history<\/p>\n

familiar to me.<\/p>\n

Sick, I had lived unquestioning,<\/p>\n

finding my role as another mattress spring,<\/p>\n

a soft down pillow, a sheet.<\/p>\n

I was an animal absorbed by pain,<\/p>\n

couldn\u2019t get beyond the fact of living.<\/p>\n

But now my journey arrived at the subtleties,<\/p>\n

the secrets, the honesty, the cover-ups.<\/p>\n

With no bed-ridden days between,<\/p>\n

the present rejoined the past.<\/p>\n

I was amidst a garden of plots and betrayals,<\/p>\n

music and drone.<\/p>\n

It was still a strange country,<\/p>\n

a frightening, comforting newness.<\/p>\n

The currency was motive.<\/p>\n

I traded in what dreams imagine<\/p>\n

for what dawn knows best.<\/p>\n

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

John Grey is an Australian born poet, and a US resident since the late seventies. He works as a financial systems analyst. Recently published in Slant,\u00a0Briar Cliff Review and Albatross with work upcoming in Poetry East, Cape Rock and REAL.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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