{"id":5646,"date":"2019-10-08T13:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:50:52","slug":"steve-klepetar-reading-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5646","title":{"rendered":"Steve Klepetar &#8220;Reading on the Beach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Steve Klepetar<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Reading on the Beach<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I start out trying to read on the beach,<br \/>\nsun glaring off the page,<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s so hard to concentrate<\/p>\n<p>with you rising before me, eyes<br \/>\nburning, hair tangled and wild<br \/>\nin summer sun, book hissing to steam<\/p>\n<p>in my hand as you pull me out to sea,<br \/>\nsky darkening as we swim<br \/>\nbeyond the sandbar, past the breakers<\/p>\n<p>into moonlight and the solemn moaning of gulls.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span class=\"il\">Steve<\/span>\u00a0Klepetar<\/strong><\/span><em>, who can play about three chords, went to Junior High School with Walter Becker of Steely Dan and Tommy Ramone.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Klepetar Reading on the Beach I start out trying to read on the beach, sun glaring off the page, but it\u2019s so hard to concentrate with you rising before me, eyes burning, hair tangled and wild in summer sun, book hissing to steam in my hand as you pull me out to sea, sky [&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":[231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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