{"id":288,"date":"2008-03-15T21:04:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/08\/erica-funkhauser-day-work\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T01:06:25","slug":"erica-funkhouser-day-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/15\/erica-funkhouser-day-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Erica Funkhouser, “Day Work”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alone. I love to be alone. Against
\nthe numberless infinities. Or for
\nthe re-creation of the little chores
\nthat roof my world: embellished emptiness.<\/p>\n

A round peg in a square hole will find
\nits four corners—within, without—and fill<\/p>\n

them with its private tyrannies. Be still
\nand see if solitude will make you kind.<\/p>\n

Contained. I love to be contained. The air,
\na pair of trees that rise in unison,
\nthe shade that lends my day abundant edge:
\ninventions, all. The other world’s a cage.
\nThe body scatters and is never done.
\nSmall teeth and claws await us everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Earthly<\/i><\/a> Funkhouser’s fifth collection of poems. This volume also includes “The Pianist Upstairs<\/a>,” which appeared in The Atlantic<\/i>, “Charles Street, Late November<\/a>,” from the literary journal Sou’wester<\/i>, and Imaginary Friends<\/a>,” from AGNI<\/i>. Earlier Funkhouser poems online include “Plane<\/a>” and “The Evening of the Stillborn Calf<\/a>” from Ploughshares<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alone. I love to be alone. Against the numberless infinities. Or for the re-creation of the little chores that roof my world: embellished emptiness. A round peg in a square hole will find its four corners—within, without—and fill them with its private tyrannies. Be still and see if solitude will make you kind. Contained. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}