{"id":2649,"date":"2018-02-19T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&amp;p=2649"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:34:27","slug":"a-love-supreme","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/a-love-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin-left: 200px\"> <\/span><em>after John Coltrane<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The paraffin vapor trails from the heater,<\/p>\n<p>and at the window, lilies and corn plants<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>slack like morphine-softened tongues.<\/p>\n<p>Again, from downstairs the muffled sighs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>rise from the neighbor watching porn,<\/p>\n<p>and across the street the blue porch light<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>comes on, and the youth, like shadows,<\/p>\n<p>slip in and out the cracked screen door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The greasy sheen of the wartime-grey road<\/p>\n<p>reflects the moon\u2014a damp cigarette butt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>orbiting the city slowly as if held by someone<\/p>\n<p>tired from the day, someone who yet again<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>fades into his own, perhaps darker night.<\/p>\n<p>The little blue urn with your mother\u2019s ashes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sits by the spinning vinyl of Coltrane.<\/p>\n<p>We stroke each other\u2019s silence. You give. I take.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we keep unsaid we taste on our tongues,<\/p>\n<p>and we call that fate. You say, <em>I\u2019m crazy <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>about you, <\/em>and in your blood-hot eyes I see<\/p>\n<p>phone wires suspended over deserted miles,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a man sipping on one more glass of scotch,<\/p>\n<p>the fluency of his tight lips, sleepless eyes,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>keeping his and my shelved love<\/p>\n<p>from crushing it by oxygen and sunlight,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the poverty of words, and I hold onto<\/p>\n<p>what\u2019s in my memory, and what\u2019s in my hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paraffin vapor trails from the heater &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[9,49,119],"tags":[535,536,6,537],"class_list":["post-2649","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","category-aquifer","category-literary-features","category-poetry","tag-a-love-supreme","tag-andrea-jurjevic","tag-aquifer-the-florida-review-online","tag-john-coltrane"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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