{"id":1370,"date":"2012-05-10T07:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1370"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:00:53","slug":"crying","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1370","title":{"rendered":"crying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F37975548&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Onlymeith&#8217;s remix of Crying at the poetry reading.<\/p>\n<p>Onlymeith is Carlos Clemente \u00a0from Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>His production of my poem\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1023\">crying at the poetry reading<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is beautiful in its simplicity \u2013 the lone cello, beautiful use of pauses for emphasis, the blended piano and strings which give the listener time to reflect on the words without schmaltziness.<\/p>\n<p>Onlymeith\u2019s other mixes of my work are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=698\">Twins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=653\">The aching eyes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>crying at the poetry reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>there is a poet crying. she read her poem earlier.<\/p>\n<p>now it is not her turn to read. it\u2019s her time to cry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>perhaps the cheap cardboard wine loosened a sad memory,<\/p>\n<p>sent it spilling onto the floor, a moan leaking from her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the other poets ignore her, embarrassed. dictionaries with hair.<\/p>\n<p>bower birds of words. after all, she\u2019s had her turn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>besides, they prefer their emotions to be distilled to an essence,<\/p>\n<p>boiled away to leave a black residue on white paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 rob walker, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First published in Red River Review (US),\u00a0Nov, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redriverreview.net\/A55656\/RRR.nsf\/NOVEMBER11\/1F7F2847BB3D091E8525793C006BDDC4?opendocument\">http:\/\/www.redriverreview.net\/A55656\/RRR.nsf\/NOVEMBER11\/1F7F2847BB3D091E8525793C006BDDC4?opendocument<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Onlymeith&#8217;s remix of Crying at the poetry reading. Onlymeith is Carlos Clemente \u00a0from Madrid. His production of my poem\u00a0crying at the poetry reading\u00a0is beautiful in its simplicity \u2013 the lone cello, beautiful use of pauses for emphasis, the blended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1370\/revisions\/1372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}