{"id":7686,"date":"2021-04-30T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:32:30","slug":"ode-to-gargoyles-a-poem-by-james-croal-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/ode-to-gargoyles-a-poem-by-james-croal-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Gargoyles A Poem by James Croal Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"
Strong Baboon, I lost all sense of language \r\n\r\n                         Duck Angel, blue clouds are turning dark \r\n\r\nAnchored Cheetah, chase my spirit away\r\n\r\n                          Smiling Lion, Naked Genie, give your lust & longing\r\n\r\nHorned Horse, may one day you breathe flame\r\n\r\n                          Lost Dog, you have seen my lover\r\n\r\nFurless Cat, may my home become yours\r\n\r\n                          Hunchback Hyena, I, too, holler at the edge of a roof\r\n\r\nTender Dove, may you pass these tigers safely\r\n\r\n                          Galloping Bat, may we find a bed deep in a cave\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
 
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\nJames Croal Jackson (he\/him\/his) is a Filipino-American poet. He has a chapbook, The Frayed Edge of Memory <\/em>(Writing Knights Press, 2017), and poems published in Perhappened, Kingdoms in the Wild, and Capsule Stories<\/em>, among others. He edits The Mantle Poetry<\/em> (themantlepoetry.com<\/a>) and works in film production in Pittsburgh, PA.  (jamescroaljackson.com)<\/a>
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Strong Baboon, I lost all sense of language Duck Angel, blue clouds are turning dark Anchored Cheetah, chase my spirit away Smiling Lion, Naked Genie, give your lust & longing Horned Horse, may one day you breathe flame Lost Dog, you have seen my lover Furless Cat, may my home become yours Hunchback Hyena, I, … 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":[872,808,796,366,401,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686"}],"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=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7694,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}