{"id":1309,"date":"2012-07-04T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:16:47","slug":"blind-hope-blues-by-by-henry-7-reneau-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/blind-hope-blues-by-by-henry-7-reneau-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"blind hope blues by by henry 7. reneau, jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jar.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1310 lazyload\" title=\"jar\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/280;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">blind hope blues<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for trena riley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by henry 7. reneau, jr<\/p>\n<p>the blues toil within a gilded, circular vacuum.<br \/>\nwhen the Mason jar tilt sideways<br \/>\nhobbled lightening bugs<br \/>\nilluminate the world inside their glass cage<br \/>\nwith the last remaining light casting a shadow on the sun,<br \/>\nbeauty within emptiness, hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>we are witnesses, 400 years underground,<br \/>\nand commotion is the atmosphere we swim in,<br \/>\n<em>testing and backstabbing and pulling the knife out<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to lick our wounds and try to heal<\/em><br \/>\n<em>only to make a scar that says: STAB HERE REPEATEDLY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>the blues toil within a brick-walled, linear vacuum<br \/>\nthat takes more than Elvis to fill. time stutter-steps,<br \/>\na heartbeat across a horizon-less plane<br \/>\nwhere God and the Devil circle in pugilism<br \/>\nlike ancient, rusting cars idling in tall grass,<br \/>\nbeauty within emptiness, hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nhenry 7. reneau, jr. has been published in various journals\/anthologies, among them, Nameless Magazine; Subliminal Interiors Literary Arts Magazine; The Chaffey Review; The View From Here; FOLLY Magazine; Entering; Tule Review; BlazeVOX; Black Heart Magazine; Forty Ounce Bachelors; Suisun Valley Review; and Tidal Basin Review.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blind hope blues for trena riley by henry 7. reneau, jr the blues toil within a gilded, circular vacuum. when the Mason jar tilt sideways hobbled lightening bugs illuminate the world inside their glass cage with the last remaining light casting a shadow on the sun, beauty within emptiness, hidden in plain sight. we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erotic-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}