{"id":4939,"date":"2017-05-31T03:39:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T03:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2017-07-12T03:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T03:41:21","slug":"big-zoo-michael-brosnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4939","title":{"rendered":"BIG ZOO &#8211; Michael Brosnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the lions,<br \/>\nby the tattered aviary,<br \/>\nwe can\u2019t help but try it \u2014<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\npeering up and sneering<br \/>\nat the unapproachable sky<br \/>\nlike clipped birds of prey,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nhopping left, then right,<br \/>\nthen left, then left,<br \/>\nthen right again,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nzigzagzigging our way<br \/>\nup the patrons\u2019 promenade<br \/>\nin the general direction<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nof tomorrow,<br \/>\nbreathing in the exotic<br \/>\naroma of fate fenced \u2014<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ntrying hard to shrug off<br \/>\nthe unspeakably slow<br \/>\nthickening of sorrow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMichael Brosnan has published in various literary journals, including <em>Confrontation, Borderlands, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, New Letters, The Moth<\/em>, <em>Into the Teeth of the Wind, Rattle, <em>and <\/em>Ibbetson Street<\/em>. At his day job, he  works as the editor of Independent School, an award-winning quarterly magazine on precollegiate education. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the lions, by the tattered aviary, we can\u2019t help but try it \u2014 &nbsp; peering up and sneering at the unapproachable sky like clipped birds of prey, &nbsp; hopping left, then right, then left, then left, then right again, &nbsp; zigzagzigging our way up the patrons\u2019 promenade in the general direction &nbsp; of tomorrow, [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[261,149],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-art-zoologischer-garten-i-august-macke","tag-wikicommons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","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=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}