{"id":1259,"date":"2015-03-08T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2015-02-04T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T00:17:27","slug":"lucia-cherciu-clenched-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Lucia Cherciu: &#8220;Clenched Teeth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lucia Cherciu<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Clenched Teeth<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At Gara de Nord<br \/>\nthe children of the streets<br \/>\nearn their supper<br \/>\nand cash for glue,<br \/>\ntheir faces turning<br \/>\nfirst grey, then blue,<\/p>\n<p>hiding their induced reveries<br \/>\nin the cavities of the Metro,<br \/>\ncatacombs of loneliness<br \/>\nand fights among<br \/>\nempty bottles of Pepsi,<br \/>\nblankets of cardboard boxes,<br \/>\nan orange jacket<br \/>\nforgotten on the train.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lucia Cherciu<\/strong> writes both in English and in Romanian, and her new book of poetry,\u00a0<\/em>Edible Flowers<em>, is available from Main Street Rag.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucia Cherciu Clenched Teeth At Gara de Nord the children of the streets earn their supper and cash for glue, their faces turning first grey, then blue, hiding their induced reveries in the cavities of the Metro, catacombs of loneliness and fights among empty bottles of Pepsi, blankets of cardboard boxes, an orange jacket forgotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[156],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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