{"id":1505,"date":"2021-01-10T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2021-01-13T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:10:07","slug":"poetry-by-catherine-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Catherine Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"poemscroll\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<h4>Dispersal<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">That town was the same when I finally returned:\nhay bales belted down by frost, hillsides glassy.\n\nRiver heavy with porcelain plates. The pine trees\nstood tall in their refusal.\n\nI was afraid to forgive you, alone, narcotic\nin that forsaken house. Bandstand glowing\n\nlike a dollhouse in a dream. You were a child\nwith me. Each year I came home from the city\n\nand the landscape seemed less lucid.\nThe ice broke and reformed.\n\nThe moon stood watch over my motel\nlike a sister appearing silently in the doorway.\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Deer in Bright Snow<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Deer in bright snow.\nDarkness like a centrifuge\n\nspinning, pulling everything towards the edges.\nThe trick is not to care\n\nwhen she kisses me. Not to touch\nthe death drive passing back and forth\n\nbetween us. Any day now.\nHeat rises under my eyes.\n\nIn the restaurant neon signs face outward\nadvertising beer. <em>Genesee, Schaefer<\/em>.\n\nIn another life she leaves him.\nWe kiss until the windows gleam with rain\n\nor night empties into the soft whoosh\nof cars along the state road.\n\n\f\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Catherine Pond is the author of<em>\u202fFieldglass<\/em>,\u202fforthcoming in March 2021. Her poems have appeared in\u202f<em>Best New Poets 2020,\u202fBest American Nonrequired Reading 2018,<\/em> and other publications.\u202fShe is a PhD candidate in Literature &amp; Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Pond lives in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispersal | Deer in Bright Snow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}