{"id":55,"date":"2012-12-22T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-11-08T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T19:38:24","slug":"free-fall-poem-sonnet-by-michael-r-burch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/free-fall-poem-sonnet-by-michael-r-burch\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Fall. Poem. Sonnet by Michael R Burch"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/i><\/strong>
\nThese cloudless nights, the sky becomes a wheel\u00a0<\/strong>
\nwhere suns revolve around an axle star …<\/strong>
\nLook there, and choose. Decide which moon is yours.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSink Lethe-ward, held only by a heel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advantage. Disadvantage. Who can tell?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTo see is not to know, but you can feel\u00a0<\/strong>
\nthe tug sometimes: the gravity, the shell\u00a0<\/strong>
\nas lustrous as damp pearl. You sink, you reel\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

toward some draining revelation. Air:\u00a0<\/strong>
\ntoo thin to grasp, to breath. Such pressure.\u00a0Gasp.<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>
\n<\/i>The stars invert, electric, everywhere.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAnd so we fall, down-tumbling through night\u2019s fissure:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

two beings pale, intent to fall forever\u00a0<\/strong>
\naround each other\u2014fumbling at love\u2019s tether …<\/strong>
\nnow separate, now distant, now together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally published by\u00a0Sonnet Scroll<\/em><\/p>\n

 
\n 
\n\"Mike<\/a>
\n 
\nMichael R. Burch\u2019s poems, translations, essays, articles and letters have appeared more than 2,000 times in publications which include TIME, USA Today, Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em> and hundreds of literary journals and websites. His poetry has been translated into Arabic, Czech, Farsi, Gjuha Shqipe, Italian, Macedonian, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese. He also edits www.thehypertexts.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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These cloudless nights, the sky becomes a wheel\u00a0 where suns revolve around an axle star … Look there, and choose. Decide which moon is yours.\u00a0 Sink Lethe-ward, held only by a heel.\u00a0 Advantage. Disadvantage. Who can tell?\u00a0 To see is not to know, but you can feel\u00a0 the tug sometimes: the gravity, the shell\u00a0 as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[587,43,504],"tags":[18,3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}