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Isthmus<\/strong><\/p>\n we are on the Isthmus <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gregg Dotoli<\/strong> lives in New York City area and has studied English at Seton Hall University. He works as a white hat hacker, but his first love is the arts.\u00a0 His poems have been published in, Quail Bell Magazine, The Four Quarters Magazine, Calvary Cross, Dead Snakes, Halcyon Magazine, Allegro Magazine, the Mad Swirl, Voices Project, Writing Raw<\/em> and Down in the Dirt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isthmus we are on the Isthmus past-present soil growing crowded and carbon-hot is that tide higher? where is that lake? those polar bears swim but aren’t walruses scary-odd December-spring day in the big baked Apple I like Florida, but it’s coming to me not me to it Gregg Dotoli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11260,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions\/11260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npast-present soil
\ngrowing crowded and carbon-hot
\nis that tide higher?
\nwhere is that lake?
\nthose polar bears swim
\nbut aren’t walruses
\nscary-odd December-spring day
\nin the big baked Apple
\nI like Florida, but
\nit’s coming to me
\nnot me to it<\/p>\n