{"id":275,"date":"2013-11-30T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-01-16T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:38:23","slug":"at-the-end-of-the-dream-i-can-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"AT THE END OF THE DREAM I CAN FLY &#8211; David Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0in a black kimono \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0dyed black hair<br \/>\ndisappeared \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0behind a black curtain<br \/>\nI\u2019d decided to give a poetry reading \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in drag<br \/>\nA feather boa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0many shades of blue<br \/>\nturned into a string of seashells<br \/>\nOdd light from elaborate lampshades<br \/>\nantique furniture Sally Kellerman\u2019s<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t find the right high-heels<br \/>\nso decided not to do the reading in drag<br \/>\nI might not be able to handle it<\/p>\n<p>Outside my automobile a small red truck<br \/>\nwasn\u2019t where I parked it Carloads of men<br \/>\nall in the same red gown and blonde wig<br \/>\nbegan arriving for the reading A guy<br \/>\nI think he was flirting sang to me<br \/>\nbut then he put his arm around another guy<br \/>\nI had to find my truck I took a shortcut<br \/>\nthrough a fenced courtyard A long line<br \/>\nof schoolgirls wearing party dresses carrying balloons<br \/>\nmarched towards me I jumped up to avoid them<\/p>\n<p>On the next street a wild dog chasing me<br \/>\nteeth viciously snapping at my feet<br \/>\nAs I ran along a path that twisted<br \/>\nthrough some trees I realized I was flying<br \/>\nflying high enough to escape the dog<br \/>\nand could see all the backyards below<br \/>\nlike the neighborhood where I grew up<br \/>\nand I thought my red truck my red truck<\/p>\n<p>3\/7\/89<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped.jpg\" rel='prettyPhoto'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-287\" alt=\"photo, David Trinidad Photo Cropped\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped.jpg 942w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped-910x1201.jpg 910w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-Trinidad-Photo-Cropped-720x950.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Trinidad\u2019s most recent books are Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems<\/p>\n<p>(2011) and Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), both published by Turtle<\/p>\n<p>Point Press. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches in the Creative Writing<\/p>\n<p>Department at Columbia College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0in a black kimono \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0dyed black hair disappeared \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0behind a black curtain I\u2019d decided to give a poetry reading \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in drag A feather boa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0many shades of blue turned into a string of seashells Odd light from elaborate lampshades antique furniture Sally [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}