{"id":7346,"date":"2023-06-26T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2023-06-13T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T02:04:25","slug":"devon-neal-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=7346","title":{"rendered":"Devon Neal &#8220;Overtime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Devon Neal<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Overtime<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"vfgef6M6oSaddM6pChR2\">\n<div class=\"gIgFccyVflVKEh5Hk0ZR\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"figure\">\n<div class=\"CoYTWXXKdjSwW5ACD3Os\" lang=\"en-US\" data-notranslate=\"true\">\n<div class=\"page\" role=\"region\" data-page-number=\"1\" aria-label=\"Page 1\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<p>It\u2019s 4th-and-4 and they\u2019re going for it,<br \/>\nbut what he sees as I bend toward the TV<\/p>\n<p>is the dim lamplight melting into buttery air,<br \/>\na kaleidoscope television flashing grassbitten uniforms,<\/p>\n<p>the fireplace juggling,<br \/>\npebbles of popcorn next to the half-empty bowl,<\/p>\n<p>a cat like a beret on the back of the couch,<br \/>\nand my arm grazing his, glinting with a watch<\/p>\n<p>reminding him that, in support of the team,<br \/>\nwe let him stay up after bedtime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"endOfContent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Devon Neal<\/strong><\/span> <em>took a 10-year break from writing to raise kids, only to find that he now only has time to write poems one sentence at a time.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Neal Overtime It\u2019s 4th-and-4 and they\u2019re going for it, but what he sees as I bend toward the TV is the dim lamplight melting into buttery air, a kaleidoscope television flashing grassbitten uniforms, the fireplace juggling, pebbles of popcorn next to the half-empty bowl, a cat like a beret on the back of 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":[809],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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