{"id":5180,"date":"2018-01-07T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2018-01-08T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:12:03","slug":"portlandishness-michael-montack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"PORTLANDISHNESS &#8211; Michael Montack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>=  San Francisco<br \/>\n\u00f7  Brooklyn<br \/>\nx  Vermont <\/p>\n<p>Or \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s walking your adult miniature goat Jezebelle<br \/>\ndown the street in the drizzle\u2014umbrella-less\u2014<br \/>\nto pick up your favorite direct-trade organic<br \/>\nEl Salvadorian Kilimanjaro-Kenya Process blend<br \/>\nspecial ordered for that evening\u2019s Cycling Club soir\u00e9e.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s chit-chatting with the barista politely<br \/>\nabout a potential barter\u2014your goat cheese<br \/>\nfor his chickens\u2019 eggs\u2014even if you\u2019re steaming<br \/>\nbecause he\u2019d forgotten (again!) to place your order.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s inviting him to consider joining the club anyway<br \/>\nalthough he hasn\u2019t biked since becoming a Buddhist<br \/>\n(for reasons you don\u2019t entirely follow).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And his declining. <em>Because, well<\/em> \u2026 His girlfriend\u2019s band<br \/>\nhas a fundraiser gig that night, all proceeds going to<br \/>\nthe Indigenous-Eco-Sativa-Redwood Sanctum Foundation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then it\u2019s accidentally leaving behind Jezebelle\u2019s poop bag<br \/>\nbetween the register and the kosher vegan \u2018What\u2019s Up-cakes\u2019<br \/>\nand his safe-keeping it until your next visit (five days later)<br \/>\nin case it was a sample for <em>I dunno \u2026<\/em> <em>Jezebelle\u2019s Vet?<\/em><\/em><em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/nn-micheal-montlack-head-shot-mm-nn-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5185\" \/>Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry book <em>Cool Limbo<\/em> (NYQ Books) and the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology <em>My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them<\/em> (University of Wisconsin Press). Recently his poetry appeared in <em>North American Review, Barrow Street, Hotel Amerika, Tupelo Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Cortland Review,<\/em> and <em>Painted Bride Quarterly<\/em>. He lives in NYC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>= San Francisco \u00f7 Brooklyn x Vermont Or \u2026 It\u2019s walking your adult miniature goat Jezebelle down the street in the drizzle\u2014umbrella-less\u2014 to pick up your favorite direct-trade organic El Salvadorian Kilimanjaro-Kenya Process blend special ordered for that evening\u2019s Cycling Club soir\u00e9e. &nbsp; It\u2019s chit-chatting with the barista politely about a potential barter\u2014your goat cheese [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-keep-portland-weird-vin-vaskopf-from-flicker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}