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Adoration in the Catalina Foothills<\/strong><\/p>\n Below this crest of stillness<\/p>\n in a mid-winter evening and grim-wrought gray,<\/p>\n I\u2019m an indecent animal, on a road meant for misfits and outlaws.<\/p>\n Barely a vapor exists\u2014<\/p>\n only deep, drab gullies slithering across botanical sand rifts<\/p>\n of frothy pearls everlasting This is a declaration of love the canopy of a queen<\/p>\n fortified for an indigent eternity<\/p>\n by a mouth of barren implements Pre-native ruins intersect where the flowers of Arizona a failure of semen <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richard King Perkins II<\/strong> is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He lives in Crystal Lake, IL, USA with his wife, Vickie and daughter, Sage. He is a three-time Pushcart, Best of the Net and Best of the Web nominee whose work has appeared in more than a thousand publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adoration in the Catalina Foothills Below this crest of stillness in a mid-winter evening of hard frost and grim-wrought gray, I\u2019m an indecent animal, dying sadly in the briefest moments on a road meant for misfits and outlaws. Barely a vapor exists\u2014 only deep, drab gullies of condescension slithering across botanical sand rifts […]<\/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-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","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=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13395,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/13395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof hard frost<\/p>\n
\ndying sadly in the briefest moments<\/p>\n
\nof condescension<\/p>\n
\nand staghorn cones.<\/p>\n
\nwithout hope of response\u2014<\/p>\n
\nand iridescent crows.<\/p>\n
\nwith ultramarine and infra-grisaille<\/p>\n
\nburst from nothingness\u2014<\/p>\n
\nand anatomical restraint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n