{"id":3791,"date":"2010-08-19T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2010-08-19T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:37:36","slug":"poem-the-golden-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/poem-the-golden-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The Golden Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

An insidious little poem for today by Michael Snediker. We liked the confrontational flirtation here, the crispness of its Jamesian distinctions, and the uncanny feeling of being caught holding a missing puzzle piece.<\/em> \u2014Dan Chiasson <\/p>\n

\n

The Golden Bowl<\/p>\n

I did<\/em> differed from I do<\/em> differed from I can\u2019t<\/em>.
\nI couldn\u2019t then as now make anyone happy.
\nWe all more or less were bleeding. Which differed
\nfrom blood on all our hands. Held behind our
\nbacks, varying reasons blooming each their own
\nstern logic. Time passed, returned, flirted with
\nseconds as it watched the days. And you watched,
\ndidn\u2019t you, everything, from the first illicit wink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Snediker’s poems have appeared in journals such as <\/em>Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, jubilat, MARGIE, and<\/em> Pleiades. His book<\/em>, Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood & Other Felicitous Persuasions<\/a> (Dec 2008) was published by the University of Minnesota Press. He was the 2006 James Merrill Writer-in-Residence, and teaches American Literature at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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