{"id":8277,"date":"2023-04-06T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2023-04-06T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:46:06","slug":"9-i-love-homonyms-further-poems-by-jessica-skyfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/9-i-love-homonyms-further-poems-by-jessica-skyfield\/","title":{"rendered":"9 i love homonyms. Further Poems by Jessica Skyfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nthe point being<\/strong>\r\n\r\nnot every photo matters, \r\nand neither every memory. \r\nnot to mention,\r\nthey shape; \r\nthey shift. \r\nlike sands through the hourglass. \r\nthese are the days of our lives.  \r\nno semicolons. follow the rules.\r\n\r\n\r\n9 i love homonyms<\/strong>\r\n\r\n[right this way.] \r\n\r\n(how much poetry is laziness, e.e. cummings?)\r\n\r\nthe nine taking on significance suddenly. number nine. number nine. \r\ni went through a phase of thinking\r\ni was john lennon reincarnated.\r\n\r\ni guess that's probably not normal.\r\n\r\ni want to save this all for you,\r\nbut there is nothing. \r\nnothing could possibly hold it all. \r\n\r\nwhat is this and what is all?\r\nthe point being:\r\n\r\n\r\nsalt of the earth<\/strong>\r\n\r\ni will make mountains, move mountains - all with my mind\r\n(i'd rather be crushed than wait)\r\n\r\ni'll pick the short stick.\r\n\r\ni'll wonder aloud at comprehensible ideas and miss the point.\r\n\r\ni'll stretch too thin and disappear--grasping\/reaching\/flailing beyond\r\nreforming out of place\r\nlavaseepingneversleeping\r\n\r\ni'll take everything with grains of salt\r\nfragile prisms of humanity created through brutality.\r\n\r\n[pay your taxes!] :)  : (\r\n\r\n\r\npinnacle<\/strong>\r\n\r\nwe've scrambled and strove.\r\nthe trash mountain of our past accomplishments.\r\n\r\nit's growing fast and we can't keep up.\r\nand here we are, at the pinnacle,\r\n\r\ncelebrating,\r\nteetering at the top\r\n\r\nfreefall from our forte\r\n\r\nof falsity, fame, freedom, \r\n\r\nor whatever we want it to be in the metaverse. \r\n\r\nwill we be free, then, from chronological misery, \r\n\r\nmr. musk? mr. zuckerberg? \r\ngentlemen, what are your thoughts? <\/pre>\n
 
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\nJessica Skyfield <\/strong>is currently a teacher. She has been a scientist, a mother, will always be a student, and worn other hats, too. Her poems seek to bring light to our struggle with our awareness of our humanity: the juxtaposition of the smallness of ourselves when viewed universally and yet the large impact each of our individual actions can have.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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the point being not every photo matters, and neither every memory. not to mention, they shape; they shift. like sands through the hourglass. these are the days of our lives. no semicolons. follow the rules. 9 i love homonyms [right this way.] (how much poetry is laziness, e.e. cummings?) the nine taking on significance suddenly. … 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":[986,808,796,366,401],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277"}],"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=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}