{"id":913,"date":"2012-09-18T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-09-18T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T03:47:27","slug":"christopher-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Things to Do in Ghost Town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"center\"><em>After Ted Berrigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>hide under an awning<\/p>\n<p>dodge killer cars<\/p>\n<p>watch out for skeletal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">raccoon-eyed tweakers<\/p>\n<p>wear flip flops in January<\/p>\n<p>begin drinking at noon<\/p>\n<p>take a class<\/p>\n<p>attend an open mic poetry reading<\/p>\n<p>have a crepe<\/p>\n<p>look at some art<\/p>\n<p>laugh at Juggaloes<\/p>\n<p>make a visit to the courthouse<\/p>\n<p>document freight train graffiti<\/p>\n<p>talk to crows, bluebirds, red-breated robins<\/p>\n<p>hunt mushrooms<\/p>\n<p>marvel at hundreds of geese<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">as they fly by<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">making Toni cry<\/p>\n<p>pray for sunlight<\/p>\n<p>(never) get used to passive aggressive communication<\/p>\n<p>not knowing where you stand<\/p>\n<p>try not to explode at every unreturned email and phone call<\/p>\n<p>watch a toddler crack her head open<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">on the jagged edges of the rocks<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">in the fountain at Esther Short Park<\/p>\n<p>try to forget how you got here<\/p>\n<p>miss friends and family<\/p>\n<p>take walks to the Land Bridge<\/p>\n<p>avoid ghosts along the way<\/p>\n<p>hurtle over tumbling tumbleweeds<\/p>\n<p>start anew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98VYpEzNYXg?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christopherluna-poetry.blogspot.com\/\">Christopher Luna<\/a> is the co-founder, with Toni Partington, of <a href=\"http:\/\/printedmattervancouver.com\/tag\/serenity-in-the-brutal-garden\/\">Printed Matter Vancouver,<\/a> whose books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Town-Poetry-2004-2010-Anthology\/dp\/1461075114\"><em>Ghost Town Poetry,<\/em><\/a> an anthology of poems from the popular Vancouver, WA open mic reading he founded in 2004, and <a href=\"http:\/\/printedmattervancouver.com\/2012\/04\/12\/printed-matter-vancouver-presents-serenity-in-the-brutal-garden-the-debut-collection-by-vancouver-poet-jenney-pauer\/\"><em>Serenity in the Brutal Garden,<\/em> <\/a>the debut collection by Vancouver poet Jenney Pauer. His books include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/crowreviews\/2009\/06\/ghost-town-usa-by-christopher-luna\/\"><em style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">GHOST TOWN, USA<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/newdirectionspublishing.tumblr.com\/post\/5547248864\/big-bridge-publishes-letters-of-mcclure-and-brakhage\"><em>The Flame Is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961-1978,<\/em> <\/a>an important piece of film and literary history that Luna edited at Brakhage\u2019s request, available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbridge.org\/BB16\/index.htm\">Michael Rothenberg\u2019s BigBridge.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things to Do in Ghost Town After Ted Berrigan \u00a0 hide under an awning dodge killer cars watch out for skeletal raccoon-eyed tweakers wear flip flops in January begin drinking at noon take a class attend an open mic poetry &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=913\">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":[153,8],"tags":[296,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}