{"id":8193,"date":"2020-01-31T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8193"},"modified":"2020-01-31T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:24:05","slug":"recalling-the-creation-account","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8193","title":{"rendered":"Recalling the Creation Account"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.R. Harvey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018And let them all be lovers of the light,
\nand throw themselves against all sources of<\/p>\n

it, searching for a fix — and when they hit
\nthe chilly concrete stoop, all jumbled up<\/p>\n

in disarray, let them forget their past
\nmistakes and try again, again, till they lay<\/p>\n

in little furry lumps, their little arms crossed,
\nscattered around the faded Welcome mat.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something like this — I just can\u2019t remember if
\nthis was the day when God created men or moths —<\/p>\n

or maybe it was possums, like the one
\nmy front-left tire just kissed goodnight, tucked in<\/p>\n

to sleep between
\nthe curving yellow lines.<\/p>\n

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L.R. HARVEY<\/strong> lives in Chattanooga, TN., where teaches English and writes poetry. He has been widely published, and his most recent work appears in The Write Launch<\/em>, The Tennessee Magazine<\/em>, and After the Pause<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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