{"id":8650,"date":"2023-01-31T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8650"},"modified":"2023-02-01T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:03:25","slug":"tyrannosaurus-morning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8650","title":{"rendered":"tyrannosaurus morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rob Yates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

put the orchids down there
            and watch out for the spine.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it came up in the night like that memory
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you hug far too tight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but when the singing cuts out
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there\u2019ll be song, loud enough to cook with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

whitewater of the soul, fugue with scales and tongue,\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0joke upon joke collapsing like an accordion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

prevention of sleep, steps in the wrong mud,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the drip drip drop of manna on marshland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you\u2019ve disturbed the undergrowth again
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0with your unclipped feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

red clots left from the open sky burial
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0even the kites won\u2019t feed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to their monstrous young – prepared for life,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wheeling for death, the flat music\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of merry-go-rounds, dissonance as tonic,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mistakes made with harmonic intent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a magazine no longer in print,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a printed date, the inner stone, a thunder that precedes its maker,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

old train approaching long distance through the day before
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tunnels of smoke and the stamping of bulls\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and leave the orchids on the side, right there,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0next to the rest of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we can always turn them into something else,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0soon as I get this reptilian bear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

back in its cage. don\u2019t help me, I\u2019ve got it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

ROB YATES<\/strong>\u00a0has appeared as a bookseller, a bartender, a casual gardener, and a charity worker both at home and abroad. He originally hails from Essex but is currently journeying through New Zealand. Some of his work has appeared in\u00a0Agenda, Bodega, Envoi<\/em>\u00a0and other literary magazines – he tries to keep everything under one roof as much as possible via\u00a0www.rob-yates.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Yates put the orchids down there            and watch out for the spine. it came up in the night like that memory\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you hug far too tight but when the singing cuts out\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0there\u2019ll be song, loud enough to cook with. whitewater of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8659,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8650","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2fw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650","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=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8650\/revisions\/8706"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}