{"id":8589,"date":"2022-07-25T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8589"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:53:35","slug":"i-am-jacql","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8589","title":{"rendered":"I Am Jacql"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jacquelyn Shah<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jackal: opportunistic; frequents rubbish dumps
in pursuit of food; most active at dawn or dusk;
represented as wily, a trickster; makes unique\u00a0
sounds to deliver a message; used as literary
device to illustrate loneliness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am jacql\u00a0
crepuscular, incredulous
Had I been god there would be
no dust\u00a0\u00a0lint\u00a0\u00a0lust\u00a0\u00a0loneliness
or seasons of treason<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am jacql at dawn
listing to the side to avoid\u00a0
a leaking of inner anger
No rage here
just hunger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacql, my cunning
and trickery trigger
a tracking of shimmering
words, to purloin
repurpose and twist\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As jacql at dusk
I close eyes to see not
what one more day has been\u00a0
in the Land of Missing\u00a0
Truth\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Truth?
Opportunistic, I\u2019m jacql\u00a0
I chew on residue left
after its slaughter, and\u00a0\u00a0slow\u00a0
awful\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0bleeding\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0out
What I eat is acrid,
but then, I\u2019m jacql<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

JACQUELYN “JACSUN” SHAH,<\/strong>\u00a0iconoclast, pacifist: A.B., English (Rutgers U); M.A., English (Drew U); M.F.A., Ph.D., English literature\/creative writing (U of Houston). Publications: chapbook\u2014small fry<\/em>; full-length book\u2014What to Do with Red<\/em>; poems in journals; Winner: Literal Latt\u00e9\u2019s 2018 Food Verse Contest. She loves what’s quirky and\/or surrealistic in literature . . . and life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacquelyn Shah Jackal: opportunistic; frequents rubbish dumpsin pursuit of food; most active at dawn or dusk;represented as wily, a trickster; makes unique\u00a0sounds to deliver a message; used as literarydevice to illustrate loneliness. I am jacql\u00a0crepuscular, incredulousHad I been god there … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8583,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2ex","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8589\/revisions\/8598"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}