{"id":5599,"date":"2016-11-20T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2016-11-20T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:53:03","slug":"through-the-grinder-a-poem-by-a-j-huffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/through-the-grinder-a-poem-by-a-j-huffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Grinder. A Poem by A.J. Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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Body language indicated frustration,
\ntrying to get back
\nto normal, and I
\nlooked down at empty.
\nHands gave back everything,
\nthanked me as I had to move on
\nfor their sake. An integrity procedure\u2014
\nlike seals on storebought bottles\u2014
\nI moved closer
\nto the edge. Contained,
\nI believed I would not have known the difference.
\nI came apart freely and without
\ndamaging the sky, dissolved
\ninto the ether and afterthought.
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A.J. Huffman has published thirteen full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns<\/em> (Scars Publications), Degeneration<\/em> (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees<\/em> (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions <\/em>(Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2600 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia,<\/em> and Kritya<\/em>. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. www.kindofahurricanepress.com<\/a>.<\/strong>
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      Body language indicated frustration, trying to get back to normal, and I looked down at empty. Hands gave back everything, thanked me as I had to move on for their sake. An integrity procedure\u2014 like seals on storebought bottles\u2014 I moved closer to the edge. Contained, I believed I would not have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[728,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599"}],"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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}