{"id":2328,"date":"2012-08-22T00:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2012-08-22T00:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:48:54","slug":"julie-choffel-cardinal-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/22\/julie-choffel-cardinal-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Choffel, “Cardinal Sketch”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Julie
\nStevan Alcala<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rough and literate, your bits made a cheery piece:
\nto try windows \/ to grate one’s teeth.<\/p>\n

Keep placidly along the lines
\nof droll translation. Not merely a hat of polite passage,
\nbut a rimmed ottoman and a sitter
\nor glass of burgundy with friend.<\/p>\n

Lukewarm, I knew it. Infused air is<\/em> your body:<\/p>\n

happy campers abound in these parts.
\nYour gray self is more of an other.
\nPlease fill to the top. And until there is something to say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Hello Delay<\/i><\/a> is the first book of poems by Julie Choffel, and the winner of Fordham University Press’s Poets Out Loud Prize<\/a>. Other poems include “If Everyone Came to Me<\/a>” (which originally appeared in Bird Dog<\/i>). You can hear her read from that and two other poems, and discuss her work, in this appearance on Balcony TV<\/i>.<\/p>\n