{"id":7569,"date":"2021-01-22T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2021-01-22T19:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:02:43","slug":"origami-sunset-a-poem-by-a-j-huffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/origami-sunset-a-poem-by-a-j-huffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Origami Sunset. A Poem by A.J.Huffman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fold like a flower when the wind blows
\nblood across a tired sky. My arms curl
\nin semblance of an infant, almost without
\nbones. My back bows in archaic pose,
\nnot quite rose, yet so much more than weed.
\nThis crumpling is automatic, permanent
\nimprints in my skin seem
\nto follow the pull of a moon yet to appear.
\nI breathe out a husky blue,
\nwatch it circle, settle, dissolve beneath forbidden
\nwaves as my eyes wait for ethereal tape
\nto force them to sleep.
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\nA.J. Huffman has published fourteen full-length poetry collections, fifteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (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, and Kritya. She is the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. You can find more of her personal work here: https:\/\/ajhuffmanpoetryspot.blogspot.com\/<\/a>
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
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\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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I fold like a flower when the wind blows blood across a tired sky. My arms curl in semblance of an infant, almost without bones. My back bows in archaic pose, not quite rose, yet so much more than weed. This crumpling is automatic, permanent imprints in my skin seem to follow the pull of … 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":[728,720,808,796,366,754,401],"tags":[18,136,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569"}],"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=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}