{"id":10048,"date":"2023-10-12T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2023-12-09T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T16:27:13","slug":"pretty-lights-by-john-frank-haugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/pretty-lights-by-john-frank-haugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Lights  by John Frank Haugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10051 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Strive-for-progress-not-perfection-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pretty Lights<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by John Frank Haugh<\/p>\n<p>Pretty Lights Nine days left in his twenty-ninth year the Businessman<br \/>\nslips silent from Claustrophobia House. He climbs<br \/>\nshadows, stands on a darkened church roof.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred bucks, a bus ticket, a backpack with apple<br \/>\n&amp; paperback. A long wool coat scratchy-sodden wet,<br \/>\ntight at shoulder and hip. I bought a birth certificate,<\/p>\n<p>it carries a different name. Two cement block are three sixty two,<br \/>\nat Lowes. Pretty cars pass. I could leave my overpass note or river<br \/>\nbridge note as if jumping, then Greyhound. Walk on, consider.<\/p>\n<p>Weight paper with cement or drop a block? I could almost take out<br \/>\none of the lights streaming below, tonight. Block through glass<br \/>\nas they speed curves. Pretty cars drive by, unaware<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Frank Haugh\u2019s writing has been published in storySouth, The North Carolina Literary Review, Notre Dame Magazine, Main Street Rag, Rat\u2019s Ass Review, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He won the 2022 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, was selected for Poetry in Plain Sight, a couple anthologies, and other things. Haugh lives in Greensboro North Carolina, was a good fencer once, and spends untold hours in bookstores like Scuppernong and Bookmarks. When not helping fix supply chain problems, walking, or napping, he works on his next book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Frank Haugh\u2019s writing has been published in storySouth, The North Carolina Literary Review, Notre Dame Magazine, Main Street Rag, Rat\u2019s Ass Review, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}