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Her elegant hands caressing rich dark fur, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
smiling like she ate a muffin, eyes open <\/p>\n\n\n\n
but in a closed place, she\u2019s not the diamond <\/p>\n\n\n\n
set above the BULOVA<\/em>,\nshe\u2019s the spoke of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let her through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Night can be white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let her through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She’s not a dancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let her through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Step to the side of the black\nline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Intelligent bird resting on the pillow she filled\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n luxury bill listing leeward seeks a harbor\u2019s open beak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She\u2019s not through yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n <\/p>\n Donald Zirilli is a Healthcare IT manager with an English Literature BA from Drew University. He was the editor of Now Culture, the art editor of The Shit Creek Review, and remains a Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Gang Member. His poetry was published in The 2River View, Anti- poetry magazine, ART TIMES, Nerve Lantern, River Styx, and other periodicals and anthologies. He and his wife live in an idyllic corner of New Jersey with two dogs and two cats. His chapbook, Heaven\u2019s Not For You, was published in September, 2018, by Kelsay Books. Her elegant hands caressing rich dark fur, smiling like she ate a muffin, eyes open but in a closed place, she\u2019s not the diamond set above the BULOVA, she\u2019s the spoke of the time. Let her through. Night can be white. Let her through. She’s not a dancer. Let her through. Step to the side [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-photo-from-wikicommons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","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=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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