She stayed seven years,
\nsnow in snow out.
\nListened to echoing jazz guitars and
\nshook broad doggy dog paws.<\/p>\n
Dusted brains, almost daily, and
\nthought about trips to Ireland
\nthe day after Valentine\u2019s. Soon the hills
\nwill come in in loops, she knows it.<\/p>\n
Once, she was so thirsty she got bored.
\nOr was it the other way around?
\nShe stayed seven years.
\nPreferred light shoes over dark.<\/p>\n
The not overly demoiselle<\/em> ones<\/p>\n (that is)<\/p>\n The ones of ethereal dancers \n dare to dance in a Degasian Pink to a Post Valentine\u2019s dance<\/p>\n whooshing past all teenage galaxies<\/p>\n utterly eloquent and in your face.<\/p>\n She stayed seven years, snow in snow out. Listened to echoing jazz guitars and shook broad doggy dog paws. Dusted brains, almost daily, and thought about trips to Ireland the day after Valentine\u2019s. Soon the hills will come in in loops, she knows it. Once, she was so thirsty she got bored. Or was it [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-a-study-of-the-heart-of-the-matter-by-gerburg-garmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nair-gliding
\nover the green space of imagined black holes
\nwhere usually
\nonly dogs<\/p>\n
\nthe very ones a diva would wear<\/p>\n
\n
\nGerburg Garmann, a native of Germany, teaches German and French at the University of Indianapolis. Her poems and translations of poems as well as her artwork have appeared in various magazines and anthologies around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"