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Portrait<\/span><\/p>\n by Louis Gallo<\/p>\n A fine woman she was, Ah, so much to live for, Just when you’re thinking of <\/p>\n Four volumes of Louis Gallo\u2019s poetry, Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Clearing the Attic, are now available.<\/i>\u00a0Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Leeway & Advent<\/i>\u00a0will be published soon.\u00a0 He was invited for and interview and reading of his work by National Public Radio\u2019s program \u201cWith Good Reason,\u201d broadcast across the country, 2021. His work appears in\u00a0Best Short Fiction 2020.<\/i>\u00a0A novella, \u201cThe Art Deco Lung,\u201d will soon be published in\u00a0Storylandia.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0National Public Radio aired a reading and discussion of his poetry on its \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d series (December 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Portrait by Louis Gallo A fine woman she was, full of protein and lentils and maybe some turnip greens . . . and I saw these translated into her everything, Ah, so much to live for, and even more to die for. I’m thinking of Walt Whitman right now. I always think of Walt Whitman….<\/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":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfull of protein and lentils
\nand maybe some turnip greens . . .
\nand I saw these translated
\ninto her everything,<\/p>\n
\nand even more to die for.
\nI’m thinking of Walt Whitman right now.
\nI always think of Walt Whitman.
\nLooks like rain tomorrow.
\nWouldn’t you know.<\/p>\n
\nWalt Whitman and a fine woman
\nmade of protein and lentils
\nand maybe some turnip greens.
\nThe map may not be the territory
\nBut Apophis is still headed our way.
\nWhich sort of clinches the deal.<\/p>\n