{"id":858,"date":"2012-09-05T21:29:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:01:39","slug":"j-w-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"J. W. Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"

from <\/em>Taken With<\/p>\n

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I’d wheeled Mother where
\nFaith Hour was slated to begin
\nafter the chaplain got there<\/p>\n

wiping first her chin
\nbecause a spoon in her hand
\nwas an inexact tool.<\/p>\n

I was set to leave.
\nWhere are you going Mother asked.
\nI’m going home.<\/p>\n

Take me with you she said
\nand laughed a kind of wreck.
\nThe woman to her left<\/p>\n

said take me with you too
\nthen the six or seven of them all
\ntook the sentence on<\/p>\n

like hail taking on a garbage can.
\nTake me with you haw haw haw.
\nTake me with you laugh laugh laugh.<\/p>\n

Like a headache made of starlings.
\nI can’t I said I have a wife and dog.
\nA dog haw haw haw haw.<\/p>\n

A wife laugh laugh laugh.
\nTake me with you take me with you.
\nHaw haw laugh laugh laugh.<\/p>\n

I zippered my coat closed
\nwith a ferocity that shut them up.
\nUnbalanced silence in the room. Mom<\/p>\n

knocked it over saying
\nyou should go.
\nSaying I’ve been where you’re going.<\/p>\n

Anyway go walk your dog.<\/p>\n

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Reprinted from the book-length poem, Taken With<\/em> (Wood Works Press, 2005)\u00a0and also the full-length collection, Meaning A Cloud<\/em> (Oberlin College Press, 2008).<\/p>\n

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J. W. Marshall<\/a> co-owns and operates Open Books,<\/a> a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle, with his wife, Christine Deavel. \u00a0His first full-length book of poetry, Meaning a Cloud,<\/em><\/a> won the 2007 Field Poetry Prize and was published by Oberline College Press in 2008. \u00a0Prior to that two chapbooks of his poetry were published by Wood Works Press,<\/a> Blue Mouth<\/em> <\/a>in 2001 and Taken With<\/em> <\/a>in 2005. \u00a0Most recently his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Hubbub, Poetry Northwest,<\/a> Raven Chronicles, <\/a><\/em>and Seattle Review.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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