{"id":8490,"date":"2021-10-31T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8490"},"modified":"2021-10-31T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T21:25:34","slug":"medley-for-my-banshee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8490","title":{"rendered":"Medley for My Banshee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Joe Bishop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your keen wakes goldfish.<br>Your voice picks my ossicles,<br>Octaves purple with lupins.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You pitch banker\u2019s lamp<br>At my dodging noggin.&nbsp;<br>I fear for the alarm clock.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching&nbsp;<em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em>,<br>I howl mad guesses<br>Just to make you laugh.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You wear your mermaid gown,<br>Clutch a bunch of black roses,<br>Your freckles powdered,<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a photo on the mantle,<br>Protected behind glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JOE BISHOP<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0work has appeared in journals such as\u00a0<em>The New Quarterly, Plenitude Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Innisfree Poetry Journal,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Riddle Fence<\/em>\u00a0and is featured on the League of Canadian Poets\u2019 website. He is a recipient of a Newfoundland &amp; Labrador Arts &amp; Letters award for poetry. His first chapbook of poetry,\u00a0<em>Dissociative Songs<\/em>, was published in 2021 by Frog Hollow Press. Joe has poems forthcoming in\u00a0<em>The Puritan<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Bishop Your keen wakes goldfish.Your voice picks my ossicles,Octaves purple with lupins. You pitch banker\u2019s lampAt my dodging noggin.&nbsp;I fear for the alarm clock. Watching&nbsp;Wheel of Fortune,I howl mad guessesJust to make you laugh.&nbsp; You wear your mermaid gown,Clutch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8485,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8490","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2cW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8490","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8495,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8490\/revisions\/8495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}