{"id":3635,"date":"2020-10-04T23:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:42:03","slug":"in-your-apartment-for-the-first-time-in-months-by-james-croal-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/in-your-apartment-for-the-first-time-in-months-by-james-croal-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"In Your Apartment for the First Time in Months by James Croal Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3637 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/In-Your-Apartment-for-the-First-Time-in-Months.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/In-Your-Apartment-for-the-First-Time-in-Months.png 560w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/In-Your-Apartment-for-the-First-Time-in-Months-300x169.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 645px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 645\/363;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Your Apartment for the First Time in Months by James Croal Jackson<\/p>\n<p>In your red dress you ask what you want<br \/>\nme to say to you but Lagunitas sips<br \/>\nthe words I wanted in June out of me<br \/>\nleaving only amber hops &amp; honey<br \/>\nto ooze from my mouth. You spit<br \/>\na tumbleweed toward the wall<br \/>\n&amp; it sticks. You say all I wanted<br \/>\nwas to know you. Here I sink<br \/>\ninto the quicksand of tan<br \/>\nleather couch. This house<br \/>\nwas once full of orange lotuses.<br \/>\nWe would burst flame<br \/>\ninto bloom in the rooms<br \/>\nwe set ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>James Croal Jackson is the author of <em>The Frayed Edge of Memory<\/em> (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in <em>Columbia Journal, Rattle, Hobart, FLAPPERHOUSE<\/em>, and elsewhere. He edits <em>The Mantle from Columbus<\/em>, Ohio. Find him at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimjakk.com\">jimjakk.com<\/a> and @jimjakk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in Columbia Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3637,"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":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","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=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}