{"id":15919,"date":"2021-06-28T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=15919"},"modified":"2024-12-03T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:04:38","slug":"it-isnt-a-ghost-if-it-lives-in-your-chest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/it-isnt-a-ghost-if-it-lives-in-your-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"It Isn’t a Ghost if It Lives in Your Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 102 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-91-4<\/p>\n

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It Isn’t a Ghost if It Lives in Your Chest<\/em><\/h1>\n

Joan Houlihan<\/h2>\n

Winner of the 2021 Julie Ward Howe Award in Poetry<\/a><\/h4>\n

Houlihan’s sixth collection of lyric poems \u00a0reflects upon the persistence of what is lost and the accidental ruptures of trauma that allow re-entry into our world. These poems are at once despairing and hopeful.<\/p>\n

BLIND TRUST,<\/p>\n

in the nod of a cow, stiff-legged,
\nas she leaps in the paddock, drops
\nto her knees, then back, to roll on new grass\u2014<\/p>\n

The large eye caresses yours. She smells you
\nas you lead her through the shaded field.
\nHooded and without guile, follows you<\/p>\n

to the chute. You are the ignorance
\nshe lives through, the heavy blade she hears
\nsliding into the grooves.<\/p>\n

The secret brutalities will make patties from that
\non your behalf. A human fraternity
\ncarved out of a hung carcass.<\/p>\n

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