{"id":7144,"date":"2016-04-06T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7144"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T21:51:55","slug":"omen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7144","title":{"rendered":"Omen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Morgan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The villagers took hammers<br \/>\nto the black mountain.<br \/>\nBroke the granite<br \/>\nuntil it was barely alive.<br \/>\nMade an example<br \/>\nof its rocky skin, carried<br \/>\nhome in suitcases.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the air came alive<br \/>\nwith hunger. Birds fell<br \/>\nin clumps, softly pattering<br \/>\nthe ground. Deer shrieked,<br \/>\nterrified whistles. Vegetables<br \/>\nand fenced fruit rotted. Wells<br \/>\nsoured. Cattle dropped<br \/>\nwhere they stood. Eyes sprouted<br \/>\nwhere clouds had been.<br \/>\nIt was a bad night<br \/>\nfor sunsets &#8212; that night<br \/>\nit almost didn\u2019t happen.<br \/>\nThe sky locked its gaze<br \/>\nupon the villagers<br \/>\nduring the whole procession.<br \/>\nAtop the earth\u2019s ridged spines,<br \/>\nthe town began to rumble.<br \/>\nThe suitcases poured forth stones.<br \/>\nAnd each stone sought out a man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTOPHER MORGAN <\/strong>is the author of \u201cShadow Songs\u201d (Sad Spell Press 2015) and the Co-Manager of <em>Nostrovia!<\/em> <em>Press<\/em>. He grew up in Detroit and the Bible Belt of Georgia, before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he received his M.A. in Creative Writing and American Lit. The Reviews Coordinator for <em>Alien Mouth<\/em>, he also edits for <em>tNY Press<\/em> and <em>Arroyo<\/em> <em>Literary<\/em> <em>Review<\/em>. He loves fables, hiking in the redwoods, and happy hour margaritas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Morgan The villagers took hammers to the black mountain. Broke the granite until it was barely alive. Made an example of its rocky skin, carried home in suitcases. Just after the air came alive with hunger. Birds fell in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7136,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7144\/revisions\/7151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}