{"id":6157,"date":"2019-11-18T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2019-11-18T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T16:12:50","slug":"cruise-paul-genega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6157","title":{"rendered":"CRUISE &#8211; Paul Genega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After cancer<br>\nmandible<br>\nreplacement<br>\nI wear<br>\nthe concave<br>\nskull of<br>\nMunch\u2019s scream<br>\na far cry from<br>\nthe witless pretty<br>\nCaravaggio<br>\nI flaunted<br>\nin my pretty<br>\nwitless youth \u2013<br>\nthe quick look<br>\nlook away<br>\ncruise I got<br>\nback then<br>\nI get again \u2013<br>\ndeath the<br>\nonly magnet<br>\nsexier than sex<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"> <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Genega\u2019s poems appeared most recently in <em>This Broken Shore, Off the Coast, <\/em>and <em>Tifert Magazine\u2019s <\/em>\u201cborder\u201d issue. A chapbook of recent poems, <em>Moordener Kill<\/em>, is scheduled for early 2020 by Finishing Line Press. Among his many awards are the Charles Angoff Award from <em>The Literary Review <\/em>and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carvaggio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","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=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}