{"id":8669,"date":"2024-09-09T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2024-09-10T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:00:40","slug":"fuse-box-3-poems-from-gerry-fabian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/fuse-box-3-poems-from-gerry-fabian\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuse Box 3 Poems from Gerry Fabian"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nFuse Box<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u201cIs it\r\nalmost\r\nbeyond\r\nthe moment?\u201d\r\nYou ask.\r\n\r\nSimple as\r\nyour voice\r\nand my eyes\r\nor vice-versa.\r\nI flame to get\r\nthrough to you.\r\n\r\nThe words are\r\nelectricity to\r\npropel motion.\r\nBut there is worry\r\nabout the condition\r\nof circuit breakers\r\nIt started simple\r\nbut now the charge\r\nis more immediate.\r\n\r\nErratic Heat<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSeveral kisses\r\nago,\r\nI knew\r\nthat\r\nthis fire\r\nwould \r\nnever\r\nreally\r\nget beyond\r\nkindling;\r\nstill\r\nI \r\nhold\r\nout\r\nfor\r\nthe slightest\r\nbreeze.\r\n\r\nAccepting Derivations<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI offer help.\r\nShe smiles and shakes her head.\r\nWhite vinegar and water \r\nin the broken handle yellow bucket\r\nwith some ancient dried-up sponge.\r\nThe perspiration causes\r\ntiny strands of silver hair\r\nto stick to her face.\r\nShe wipes the faucet and then knobs\r\nthen turns her attention to the soap ring.\r\nThe concept of a shower\r\nhas not reached this farmstead.\r\nWiping a wisp of hair away,\r\nshe turns to the outside of the tub\r\nstarting with the farthest claw feet.\r\nShe has devised a way to contort\r\nher old limbs to reach impossible places.\r\nI watch in awe and embarrassment.\r\nThis is how it is done.  Period.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\nBio<\/strong>\r\n\r\nR. Gerry Fabian<\/strong> is a published poet from Doylestown, PA.\r\nHe has published five books of poetry: Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts, \r\nWildflower Women <\/em>as well as his poetry baseball book, Ball On The Mound.<\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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Fuse Box \u201cIs it almost beyond the moment?\u201d You ask. Simple as your voice and my eyes or vice-versa. I flame to get through to you. The words are electricity to propel motion. But there is worry about the condition of circuit breakers It started simple but now the charge is more immediate. Erratic Heat … 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":[1023,808,796,366,401,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669"}],"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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}