{"id":148,"date":"2010-11-19T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-11-19T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:45:29","slug":"anne-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/148\/poems\/anne-carson\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nWalks for Girls and Boys<\/strong>
\nfor RC<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Huron River<\/strong><\/p>\n

We walked by the river its arms all gold
\nin winter sun like tin.
\nWorkshops of afternoon hummed along elsewhere.
\nWe noted ice at the shore
\nand ice on plants
\nand ice from the light fixtures under the railway bridge exploding –
\nSquid<\/em>, you said.
\nTime toppled past us.
\nThere were no trains, no sunset.
\nGeese lapped at an edge, eyes inward on their sunk city.<\/p>\n

2. The Pool in Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walking to the pool in winter I think of you.
\nAnd sway on them (thoughts) in the water too, blue, ablaze, you,
\nwho once asked me
\nDo you ever swim really fast?<\/em>
\nand I, wanting to be great to you,
\nsaid Oh Yes<\/em>, busily and pretended to laugh.
\nThe pool has a deep clear sky like a marsh.
\nBright as tongues is every light.
\nSo I go on, my life goes, a few lies, a sweep of love, lap
\nafter lap, ordinary motion and something else sent
\npast vast glass out of sight.<\/p>\n

3. Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shrieks (white) and shades (suede) of dirty cold.
\nI walked down Montrose to the shore of the lake.
\nPast a shut Park Bait Shop and a boat
\nnamed Temperance II<\/em>,
\nboat named Mr Bright Eye<\/em>,
\nmud-knobbed fields,
\nrusted-out barbecue from medieval times.
\nDog on the beach cavorting bleakly.
\nLake is as ugly as a motel room.
\nWalls don’t meet. Stains sag. One angel yawns in a horny heaven.
\nAgainst north wind I struggle back to where I was warm when I woke.
\nOn the teapot a note from you about breathing.<\/p>\n

4. Wild Sex<\/strong><\/p>\n

I walked to a coast.
\nThe moon was in tumult.
\nIt reminded me of of walking down the alley where (you pointed) the pile of bricks
\nused to be,
\nin the days when hookers came in from the street
\nand built a bit of wall there
\nto take their tricks behind.
\nEach morning Dave (landlord) unbuilt the wall.
\nHe never put rise bricks anywhere else, like
\ninside.
\nIn reminded me of a feeling of ‘sudden school’ I get
\nwhenever men mention hookers
\ncasually.
\nIt reminded me of the word glissando<\/em>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walks for Girls and Boys for RC 1. Huron River We walked by the river its arms all gold in winter sun like tin. Workshops of afternoon hummed along elsewhere. We noted ice at the shore and ice on plants and ice from the light fixtures under the railway bridge exploding – Squid, you said. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}