{"id":6994,"date":"2022-08-08T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2022-08-06T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T00:40:28","slug":"richard-long-after-being-long-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"Richard Long &#8220;After Being Long Gone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Richard Long<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">After Being Long Gone<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When I rode into the valley<br \/>\nof a slide guitar,<br \/>\na tambourine, my past<br \/>\ncongregation whirling<br \/>\nin a yard of hoedown,<br \/>\nI remembered<br \/>\nmy pastor telling me<br \/>\nthere\u2019ll come the day<br \/>\nafter being long gone<br \/>\nI\u2019d come to miss the potluck<br \/>\nof dumplings, collards, and pie,<br \/>\nthe girl leaping from a swing,<br \/>\nthe boy who thumped<br \/>\nmy ear on winter mornings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Richard Long<\/strong><\/span> <em>is currently writing poems about ghost bikes and bikers and for the last 26 years has edited 2River, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual writers in the 2River Chapbook Series.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Long After Being Long Gone When I rode into the valley of a slide guitar, a tambourine, my past congregation whirling in a yard of hoedown, I remembered my pastor telling me there\u2019ll come the day after being long gone I\u2019d come to miss the potluck of dumplings, collards, and pie, the girl leaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"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":[749],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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