{"id":5040,"date":"2013-08-07T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5040"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:16:42","slug":"ben-nardolilli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=5040","title":{"rendered":"Ben Nardolilli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Close-up of Maggie’s Merry Old English Farm<\/strong><\/p>\n

She loves the game because of the optical illusions,
\nA chance to show off her love of geometry too,
\nWe never see that, of course, it escapes us,
\nAll we can see with our untrained and lazy eyes
\nAre crashes of color spread on a screen
\nMasquerading as fecund estates bearing much fruit.<\/p>\n

Another windmill has gone up, and a waterwheel
\nIs quick to follow by a healthy orchard,
\nSheep the size of the trees eat in the nearby grass,
\nTheir fat coats helping to keep the venture afloat
\nFor every visitor who comes down to the farm
\nTo see her wainwright and the pixilated vicar in action.<\/p>\n

According to her, there is a fine harvest going on,
\nCrops are just going crazy from bumper to bumper,
\nThe pigs are going to market, somewhere,
\nWe ask her about the bacon and when we get some,
\nShe LOLs and tells us about the dollars raised
\nBy the pork belly futures that have no past or present.<\/p>\n

BEN NARDOLILLI<\/strong> currently lives in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine<\/em>, Red Fez<\/em>, Danse Macabre<\/em>, The 22 Magazine<\/em>, Quail Bell Magazine<\/em>, Elimae<\/em>, fwriction<\/em>, THEMA<\/em>, Pear Noir<\/em>, The Minetta Review<\/em>, and Yes Poetry<\/em>. He has a chapbook, Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained<\/em>, from Folded Word Press. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com<\/a> and is looking to publish his first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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