{"id":229,"date":"2012-09-22T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:32:09","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/luca-xifona\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/no_photo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/luca-xifona\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\">Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Sermonic \r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBeauty  ignores dust, plus everything bare\r\nOr bitter. What is dressed in dust is dead\u2014\r\nAs is flesh that's pithiatic. Beauty \r\nFavours succulence, not desert, not ice.\r\n(Hell is coffins\u2014beings gone to scraps, scrapings\r\nOf dirt. The...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/gillian-sze\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Gillian Sze\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Gillian-Sze-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Gillian Sze\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/gillian-sze\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Gillian Sze\">Writings \/ Poetry: Gillian Sze<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Ode to Absence \r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe good colours of autumn\r\nstartle and glister.\r\nA buzzing yellow.\r\nThe best colours are scant in the late month,\r\nlasting one brief hour\r\nand then is dulled by noon\u2019s shadow.\r\nThere is obedience for shadows:\r\nwhere cars a...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/amatoritsero-ede-2\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/ama-home-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/writings\/poetry\/amatoritsero-ede-2\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede\">Writings \/ Poetry: Amatoritsero Ede<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Globetrotter \r\n(From Globetrotter &amp; Hitler\u2019s Children \u2013 New York: Akashic Books, 2009) \r\n\r\n\u00a0  \r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l \r\n\r\nand let green laughter tree\r\nbetween neighbouring jowls\r\njustled together\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\non mosaic streets\r\nthick\u00a0\u00a0 thin\r\nfull\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dimpled...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":956,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/1027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}