{"id":32,"date":"2008-12-08T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-12-08T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:50:45","slug":"wood-river-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Wood: River Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIVER WARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Joseph Wood<\/p>\n<p>Greenbacks snow Regan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s City on the Hill. Bullhorns of It is your fault It is your fault Work more overtime. In this dream the yarn mill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spooling machines sprout teeth. My face a soccer ball men in Windsor Ties belt behind the factory. I never say shit\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven if Christ were laid out on my coffee table\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnext door\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alarm clock startles my wall. And so it goes: the sun on strike once more; the El\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 above rattling the rowhomes. What else to say? I want my spit to blanket the cosmos? I want the transit buses to morph to yachts? Three blocks down, beyond the tankers, Jersey on the other side. Between me &amp; it, a gross monstrosity mislabeled river. Styrofoam cups bob that muck; my best, best neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVER WARD by Joseph Wood Greenbacks snow Regan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s City on the Hill. Bullhorns of It is your fault It is your fault Work more overtime. In this dream the yarn mill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spooling machines sprout teeth. My face a soccer ball men in Windsor Ties belt behind the factory. I never say shit\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven if Christ were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emergencypress.org\/almanac\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}