{"id":7699,"date":"2020-10-24T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2020-10-26T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:26:37","slug":"marine-pilots-investigated-for-drawing-penis-and-testicles-with-plane-jen-karetnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"Marine Pilots Investigated for Drawing Penis and Testicles with Plane – Jen Karetnick"},"content":{"rendered":"

over the Salton Sea, with the aircraft<\/p>\n

      shooting out of the tip of the phallus.<\/p>\n

            We should be offended by this obscene
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\nblueprint, protest it, mapped in the unbolted<\/p>\n

      embrace of the sky, digitally drawn where<\/p>\n

            the subsonic goes supersonic, where the air
\n 
\nmolecules make their bunched, bucking<\/p>\n

      complaints. We recognize that sound\u2014what it could<\/p>\n

          mean\u2014muffler, fireworks, gunshot. Whip.
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\nWe see how these men have amused themselves,<\/p>\n

      the way our sons did before we taught them<\/p>\n

            better. This is not breaking news. This is only
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\nbreaking women, again, who have seen dicks<\/p>\n

      pop up everywhere since birth, on whiteboards<\/p>\n

            in school, smudged by cleats in the early
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\nmorning dew on soccer fields, sprung<\/p>\n

      from zippers at parties by future judges. Face it,<\/p>\n

            with such common intrusion that suspends
\n 
\nin our space like aerosol, we can only do<\/p>\n

as the firmament does, moment by moment:<\/p>\n

            Retain the right to gust and grow electric and strike.
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\n 
\nThe title is taken from the article https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/marine-pilots-investigated-for-drawing-penis-and-testicles-with-plane<\/a>
\n 
\nJen Karetnick’s fourth full-length book is The Burning Where Breath Used to Be <\/em>(David Robert Books, September 2020). She is also the author of the forthcoming collection, Hunger Until It’s Pain<\/em> (Salmon Poetry, spring 2023), and The Treasures That Prevail<\/em> (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize. In addition, she is the author of five poetry chapbooks, including The Crossing Over<\/em> (March 2019), winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been awarded the Hart Crane Memorial Prize, the Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, among others. Her work appears recently or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, The Comstock Review, december, Michigan Quarterly Review, Terrain, Under a Warm Green Linden,<\/em> and elsewhere. Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day<\/em>, Jen is currently a Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence. Find her on Twitter @Kavetchnik and Instagram @JenKaretnick, or see jkaretnick.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

over the Salton Sea, with the aircraft       shooting out of the tip of the phallus.             We should be offended by this obscene   blueprint, protest it, mapped in the unbolted       embrace of the sky, digitally drawn where             the subsonic goes supersonic, where the air   molecules make their bunched, bucking       complaints. We recognize that sound\u2014what [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-photo-adam-gessaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8032,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/8032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}