{"id":5149,"date":"2016-03-12T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2016-03-12T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:27:55","slug":"the-last-film-a-poem-by-steve-klepetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-last-film-a-poem-by-steve-klepetar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Film. A Poem By Steve Klepetar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>The last film we saw was about a house<br \/>\nin the woods, with an owl circling..<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter, you said you saw a painting once, in a museum<br \/>\nin some back street, with a Roman god<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nparked in front \u2013 a house with a circling owl<br \/>\nwhose white wings stretched beyond the canvas.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIts wrinkled face tickled your eyes, but the house<br \/>\nitself looked small and broken \u2013<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ncrumbling with rotten boards and holes,<br \/>\nwindows cracked and great trees dripping<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nabove a derelict roof. You stopped for coffee then,<br \/>\nsmall, pale hands warming around the cup,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthen bounded down uneven marble stairs just as<br \/>\nsnarling guards ushered patrons out into the glowing night.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"SteveLadysmith\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-100x133.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SteveLadysmith.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Steve Klepetar\u2019s work has appeared worldwide, in such journals as <em>Boston Literary Magazine, Deep Water, Expound, The Muse: India, Red River Review, Snakeskin, Voices Israel, Ygdrasil,<\/em> and many others.  Several of his poems have been nominated for  \\Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize (including three in 2015). Recent collections include <em>Speaking to the Field Mice<\/em> (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013),<em> My Son Writes a Report on the Warsaw Ghetto <\/em>(Flutter Press, 2013) and<em> Return of the Bride of Frankenstein <\/em>(Kind of a Hurricane Press).<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\">www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artvilla.com\">www.facebook.com\/Artvilla.com<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/\">robin@artvilla.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/\">editor@artvilla.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14752100.Robin_Ouzman_Hislop\"> goodreads.com\/author\/show\/Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm\">http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Babble-Souk-Robin-Ouzman-Hislop\/dp\/1329636953\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com. All the Babble of the Souk. Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/robin-ouzman-hislop\/all-the-babble-of-the-souk\/paperback\/product-22419943.html\">www.lulu.com. All the Babble of the Souk. 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