{"id":19462,"date":"2016-08-13T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19462"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:52:37","slug":"muse-3-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/muse-3-the-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse #3: The Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muse #3:\u00a0 The Goats<\/p>\n

Frannie Z<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Anak Kambing (Malaysia)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    \u201cAnak kambing\u201d<\/p>\n

    (child of the goat):<\/p>\n

    tiny white goat<\/p>\n

    spun around<\/p>\n

    the kampong.<\/p>\n

    Until she stopped,<\/p>\n

    lifted her head<\/p>\n

    to my hand<\/p>\n

    and ranged between<\/p>\n

    my legs<\/p>\n

    scouting new smells.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Karachi: Testing and Milk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My husband fought<\/p>\n

      the male goat,<\/p>\n

      trying his young muscles<\/p>\n

      as if he were wrestling<\/p>\n

      with stags<\/p>\n

      in the ancient rite.<\/p>\n

      He corralled the female<\/p>\n

      for milk<\/p>\n

      to give his cat.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Becky\u2019s Goat<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        They moved from Chicago<\/p>\n

        to rural Arizona.<\/p>\n

        Spring the goat<\/p>\n

        comes inside<\/p>\n

        when it\u2019s hot.<\/p>\n

        She circles the rug<\/p>\n

        and teases the dog,<\/p>\n

        To her, a goat<\/p>\n

        with a growl.<\/p>\n

         <\/p>\n

          \n
        1. The Sacrifice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          You are a bastard,<\/p>\n

          but I loved you<\/p>\n

          because you couldn\u2019t watch<\/p>\n

          and kept inside<\/p>\n

          as their goat lives<\/p>\n

          ended under the knife.<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          You run to women,<\/p>\n

          butting them<\/p>\n

          with words<\/p>\n

          in four languages,<\/p>\n

          heating them<\/p>\n

          with your eyes.<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

          Some day<\/p>\n

          you may meet one<\/p>\n

          who frolics,<\/p>\n

          then steals away<\/p>\n

          to sniff new grass.<\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Muse #3:\u00a0 The Goats Frannie Z   Anak Kambing (Malaysia)   \u201cAnak kambing\u201d (child of the goat): tiny white goat spun around the kampong. Until she stopped, lifted her head to my hand and ranged between my legs scouting new smells.   Karachi: Testing and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19478,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions\/19478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}