{"id":7265,"date":"2016-08-14T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7265"},"modified":"2016-08-14T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:22:38","slug":"tiny-gods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7265","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Fisher Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria fulfill the mystery<br \/>\nof my flesh. I bequeath myself<br \/>\nto meekest inheritors, to mites<br \/>\nloping like planets through darkness,<br \/>\ngnats glinting star-forged wings, clusters<br \/>\nof toads and slender newts, Junebugs<br \/>\nsmashing through the jazzy plum<br \/>\nof the night air, sugar ants creeping<br \/>\nin cupboards, olms blind in black water,<br \/>\namoebas dripping fingers through<br \/>\nraindrop lakes, millipedes prickling<br \/>\nearth\u2019s worm-work, pious crawdads<br \/>\npraying in stock-tank chapels,<br \/>\nmicrobial angels ticking and gnawing<br \/>\nat the Parthenon\u2019s stylobate,<br \/>\nLascaux Cave, the pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ERIC FISHER STONE<\/strong> is a poet from Fort Worth, Texas, where he graduated from Texas Christian University and works at a PetSmart. He is also an incoming graduate student at Iowa State University&#8217;s MFA in Writing and Environment program. His poems have appeared most recently in <em>Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Yellow Chair Review<\/em>, <em>Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry<\/em>, <em>Uppagus<\/em>, <em>Third Wednesday<\/em>, <em>Eunoia Review<\/em>, <em>New Mexico Review<\/em> and <em>Turtle Island Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Fisher Stone Bacteria fulfill the mystery of my flesh. I bequeath myself to meekest inheritors, to mites loping like planets through darkness, gnats glinting star-forged wings, clusters of toads and slender newts, Junebugs smashing through the jazzy plum of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7262,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Tb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7265","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=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7265\/revisions\/7271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}