{"id":9121,"date":"2025-12-16T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9121"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:14:46","slug":"slummer-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9121","title":{"rendered":"Slummer of Love\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Simon MacCulloch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to Orangedale Park.<br>Here is the lightning-burnt oak.<br>There is the brook, with its dark<br>Chuckles the crumpled cans choke.<br>Watch for the dogs without leads\u00a0<br>Roaming the razor-edged grass;<br>Watch for the prowler who bleeds<br>Rainbows from eyes of cut glass.<br>Somewhere a radio plays<br>Songs made of chocolate ice cream,<br>Melting the minds of these strays,<br>Slurping them up in its dream.<br>What are you looking for here?<br>Nothing; you wait to be found,<br>Blown into bubbles of fear,<br>Blobbed like old gum on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>SIMON MACCULLOCH<\/strong>\u00a0lives in London and contributes poetry to a variety of publications, including\u00a0<em>Spectral Realms, Aphelion, Altered Reality, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Reach Poetry, Black Petals, The Horror Zine<\/em>\u00a0and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon MacCulloch Welcome to Orangedale Park.Here is the lightning-burnt oak.There is the brook, with its darkChuckles the crumpled cans choke.Watch for the dogs without leads\u00a0Roaming the razor-edged grass;Watch for the prowler who bleedsRainbows from eyes of cut glass.Somewhere a radio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9117,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2n7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9121","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=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9121\/revisions\/9129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}