{"id":506,"date":"2014-01-03T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-01-16T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:32:43","slug":"knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"KNOT &#8211; Joan Larkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who came to stop the two men<br \/>\nfor they must have stopped<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nnights ago on an uptown sidewalk<br \/>\nknot of flesh<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ncenter of a gawking crowd<br \/>\nOne flung his body<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\non the other\u00a0\u00a0 muttering murder<br \/>\nstruck the curb<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthe other clung like a lover<br \/>\nWhose red-dark face<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\narm locked on neck<br \/>\npavement tearing through cloth<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nbody knotted to body<br \/>\nNot-god\u00a0\u00a0 pry me apart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-jlarkin-full.jpg\" rel='prettyPhoto'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-545\" alt=\"photo, jlarkin-full\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-jlarkin-full.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Joan Larkin is the author of five books of poems, most recently<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/fcaw.library.umass.edu\/F\/?func=direct&amp;doc_number=004481787&amp;doc_library=FCL01&amp;pds_handle=GUEST\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My Body: New and Selected Poems<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and the chapbook,\u00a0<em>Legs Tipped with Small Claws<\/em>. \u00a0 \u00a0She\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">also co-founded the independent press Out &amp; Out Books and co-edited a number of groundbreaking poetry anthologies including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fcaw.library.umass.edu\/F\/?func=direct&amp;doc_number=001301703&amp;doc_library=FCL01&amp;pds_handle=GUEST\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Amazon Poetry<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fcaw.library.umass.edu\/F\/?func=direct&amp;doc_number=000578394&amp;doc_library=FCL01&amp;pds_handle=GUEST\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories<\/em><\/span><\/a>. \u00a0You can visit her website at\u00a0www.<b>joanlarkin<\/b>.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who came to stop the two men for they must have stopped &nbsp; nights ago on an uptown sidewalk knot of flesh &nbsp; center of a gawking crowd One flung his body &nbsp; on the other\u00a0\u00a0 muttering murder struck the curb &nbsp; the other clung like a lover Whose red-dark face &nbsp; arm locked on [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-henrique-oliveira-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}