{"id":1521,"date":"2012-06-24T18:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T07:52:46","slug":"my-left-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"my left hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my.left_.hand_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"my.left.hand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my.left_.hand_-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This one was recently published as text in <em>Illya&#8217;s Honey<\/em> in Dallas, TX, USA. Thanks to my old mate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/lenmosley\">Len Mosley<\/a> for this original guitar piece. Len plays all the instruments on the track (and sings), all recorded live on analogue equipment. Like Jimi, Len is left-handed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F50691196&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My left hand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sits on the page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>resting its finger tips<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>silently crouching<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>watching<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>watching what<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the right hand writes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>writes rarely, clumsily<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>itself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>itself subservient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to the dominant<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>right<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>always sinister<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>never dextrous<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a lifetime as the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>less-gifted brother<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>resentful<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>insecure less-f\u00eated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>self esteem deflated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>silent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it squats<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>there<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>plotting its<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>revenge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 rob walker, 2012<\/p>\n<p>First published in the biannual journal \u00a0<strong>Illya&#8217;s Honey<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Poets Community<\/p>\n<p>Vol 18, No. 2 ISSN 1527-7798<\/p>\n<p>(Spring\/ Summer 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/my.left_.hand_.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This one was recently published as text in Illya&#8217;s Honey in Dallas, TX, USA. Thanks to my old mate\u00a0Len Mosley for this original guitar piece. Len plays all the instruments on the track (and sings), all recorded live on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}