{"id":481,"date":"2012-05-31T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-06-01T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:54:59","slug":"jeff-crandall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Crandall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Am Your <em>Winged Torso of Eros <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything breakable in you has been broken . . .\u201d<br \/>\n&#8212; Daniel Hall<\/p>\n<p>Archival air belies the dirt they drew me from.<br \/>\nMy wings lie crumbled in that ground still.<br \/>\n(Fingers marked <em>unknown<\/em> in a Reykjavik museum,<br \/>\none ear completes a French recruiter\u2019s stall.)<br \/>\nFluorescence pours its green on all of us.<br \/>\nWhy then return to face this embarrassment<br \/>\nof cracks and absence, blind luck and loss?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got it wrong (in sneakers and jeans, the docent\u2019s<br \/>\nsneeze, the guidebook\u2019s backward fold): <em>Let me go<\/em><br \/>\ninto the world: part saffron-dusted swallowtail,<br \/>\npart fountain jazz, wine and laughlines. The stone<br \/>\nheart erodes, forgotten as a pearl in its fossil shell.<br \/>\nTake, instead, the light sighs . . . I am broken,<br \/>\nyes, but broken like bread &#8212; a piece for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Crandall is a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bpj.org\/2009\/10\/jeff-crandall-on-glassblower.html\">poet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inversestudio.com\/\">artist <\/a>living in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am Your Winged Torso of Eros \u201cEverything breakable in you has been broken . . .\u201d &#8212; Daniel Hall Archival air belies the dirt they drew me from. My wings lie crumbled in that ground still. (Fingers marked unknown &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=481\">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":[125,8,138,1],"tags":[170,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}