{"id":863,"date":"2018-07-30T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:01:01","slug":"in-the-photic-zone-by-jen-karetnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In the Photic Zone&#8221; by Jen Karetnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When the glaciers have calved<br \/>\nso much of their weight that the matter<\/p>\n<p>of my home changes state, bring me<br \/>\nthe whales, those Cuisinarts of the ocean<\/p>\n<p>flat beating the layers of the sea<br \/>\nlike cake batter with each deep<\/p>\n<p>dive and sound, icing the surface<br \/>\nwith expulsions of iron-rich<\/p>\n<p>excrement that feeds the drift<br \/>\nof sunlight. What we think we own<\/p>\n<p>will no longer be ours to claim,<br \/>\nbut the leaves of every book<\/p>\n<p>we\u2019ve ever read, libraries<br \/>\nof poems lingering in the water<\/p>\n<p>like sonar, will green<br \/>\nand green and green and green.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Jen Karetnick is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including <em>The Treasures That Prevail<\/em> (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize, and four poetry chapbooks. The winner of the 2017 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, the 2016 Romeo Lemay Poetry Prize and the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize, her work appears or is forthcoming in <em>Amuse-Bouche\/Lunch Ticket, Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, JAMA, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Salamander<\/em>, and Verse Daily. She is co-editor of the daily online literary journal, <em>SWWIM Every Day<\/em> (@SWWIMmiami).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Photic Zone by Jen Karetnick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}