{"id":1556,"date":"2013-04-07T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:31:43","slug":"brendan-mcbreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Brendan McBreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>imagine me<br \/>\na stranger<\/p>\n<p><em>I consider myself to be a stranger everywhere.<\/em><br \/>\n-Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p>imagine the wave<\/p>\n<p>center it<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>in a spherical lake<\/p>\n<p>standing<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>in free space<\/p>\n<p>waves of electrons<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>collide<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>with paper swans<\/p>\n<p>ripple<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>to the outer edge<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>of time<\/p>\n<p>how could I ever tell you<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a woman<\/p>\n<p>I want<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>to be a swan<\/p>\n<p>rose print paper<br \/>\npetals scattered<\/p>\n<p>some<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span>on fire<\/p>\n<p>I want to fold myself<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>into myself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;imagine me a stranger&#8221; is reprinted from <em>the delinquent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagineauburn.com\/poetry\/brendan.htm\">Brendan McBreen<\/a> is a member of and a facilitator in Auburn\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagineauburn.com\/poetry\/index.htm\">Striped Water Poets.<\/a> Brendan has been published in various places, including:\u00a0<em>Leading Edge,<\/em> <em>Bellowing Arc, bottle rockets, Origami Condom <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/crabcreekreview.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/crab-creek-review-2010-voli-is-now.html\"><em>Crab Creek Review.\u00a0<\/em><\/a>Brendan enjoys haiku, surrealism, cats, teriyaki, is an artist, and has a collection of crow feathers, stuffed lions, and plastic aquarium plants, but no aquarium. \u00a0He lives in Pacific, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>imagine me a stranger I consider myself to be a stranger everywhere. -Albert Einstein imagine the wave center it &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..in a spherical lake standing &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..in free space waves of electrons &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..collide &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..with paper swans ripple &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..to the outer edge &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=1556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[505,8,1],"tags":[506,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}