{"id":7978,"date":"2018-10-30T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7978"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T04:16:34","slug":"indeterminate-drives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7978","title":{"rendered":"Indeterminate Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Askold Skalsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I grew up, I wanted to be a microcluster<br \/>\nand have a safe life, to be incorporated into larger<br \/>\nwholes, part of a clutch, like a hand holding out<br \/>\nits fingers, like globules of stars moving in the same<br \/>\ndirection with nearly the same speed. Just a clot in a<br \/>\ncoagulated mass, a portion of a roundish, viscous lump.<br \/>\nLater when my individual tendencies crystallized,<br \/>\nI opted for a pyrotechnic signal, a group of fireballs,<br \/>\nmaybe a mineral formation like a bunch of grapes<br \/>\nor a decoration of silvery acorns and oak leaves.<br \/>\nBut something had gone wrong: I began to feel thick<br \/>\nand nondescript as though degenerating into a canister.<br \/>\nMy hopes diminished; my prospects fell like fragment-<br \/>\nation bombs released from an aircraft at great height.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Ukraine, <strong>ASKOLD SKALSKY<\/strong> currently resides in Hagerstown, Maryland, and has had poems in over 300 magazines and online journals in the USA as well as in literary publications in Canada, England, Ireland, mainland Europe, Turkey, Australia, and Bangladesh. Over the years he has won several prizes for individual poems as well as two Individual Artist Awards in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. His first book of poems, <em>The Ponies of Chuang Tzu<\/em>, was published in 2011 by Horizon Tracts press in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Askold Skalsky \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; When I grew up, I wanted to be a microcluster and have a safe life, to be incorporated into larger wholes, part of a clutch, like a hand holding out its fingers, like globules of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7974,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-24G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7978","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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7978\/revisions\/7985"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}