{"id":6996,"date":"2022-08-10T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2022-08-11T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T13:56:47","slug":"richard-long-the-long-now-at-marine-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6996","title":{"rendered":"Richard Long &#8220;The Long Now at Marine Crossing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Richard Long<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Long Now at Marine Crossing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I think my father was the ghost<br \/>\non the grate of the bridge<br \/>\nfrom Parris Island to Beaufort<br \/>\nstanding at attention<br \/>\nas the sky draped around him<br \/>\nlike loose-fitting dress blues<br \/>\nwho as I passed clicked his heels<br \/>\nright-face so he could follow me<br \/>\ninto town the way he did that day<br \/>\nhe took the training wheels off my bike<br \/>\nand I wobbled up the dead-end hill<br \/>\nand never stopped because behind him<br \/>\nsix drowned recruits cried<br \/>\nhad you drilled us we\u2019d be alive.<\/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 The Long Now at Marine Crossing I think my father was the ghost on the grate of the bridge from Parris Island to Beaufort standing at attention as the sky draped around him like loose-fitting dress blues who as I passed clicked his heels right-face so he could follow me into town the [&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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