{"id":1960,"date":"2014-03-12T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2014-03-23T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T14:08:32","slug":"mimic-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"MIMIC &#038; POEM &#8211; Valentina Cano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a walkway,<br \/>\nshe\u2019d turn beneath his feet,<br \/>\nangles becoming those of his body.<br \/>\nHer voice looked to his vowels<br \/>\nfor molds in which to pour herself.<br \/>\nShe waited, cooling,<br \/>\nfor every part of him to be hers.<br \/>\nA word<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nits echo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORNER HOUSE<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe house sits at the edge<br \/>\nof a street that can\u2019t feel<br \/>\nthe wind anymore.<br \/>\nIts doors and walls have been<br \/>\nscratched clear of effervescence,<br \/>\nclinging only to the rusted solitude<br \/>\nof metal and stones.<br \/>\nThe house balances on a moonlit patch<br \/>\nthat turns to glass on clear nights.<br \/>\nDoing nothing but stare at silent,<br \/>\nburied stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1966 alignleft\" alt=\"Valentina Cano, headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Valentina-Cano-headshot.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Valentina-Cano-headshot.jpg 320w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Valentina-Cano-headshot-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler, Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Cartier Street Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals, A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Generations Literary Journal, A Narrow Fellow, Super Poetry Highway, Stream Press, Stone Telling, Popshot, Golden Sparrow Literary Review, Rem Magazine, Structo, The 22 Magazine, The Black Fox Literary Magazine, Niteblade, Tuck Magazine, Ontologica, Congruent Spaces Magazine, Pipe Dream, Decades Review, Anatomy, Lowestof Chronicle, Muddy River Poetry Review, Lady Ink Magazine, Spark Anthology, Awaken Consciousness Magazine, Vine Leaves Literary Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, Caduceus,White Masquerade Anthology and Perhaps I&#8217;m Wrong About the World. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, will be published in 2014. You can find her here: http:\/\/carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a walkway, she\u2019d turn beneath his feet, angles becoming those of his body. Her voice looked to his vowels for molds in which to pour herself. She waited, cooling, for every part of him to be hers. A word and its echo. 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