{"id":255,"date":"2020-11-18T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:01:50","slug":"the-grey-vault","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-grey-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Grey Vault\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lighthouse zoomed Britain\/U.S. forlornly\u00a0\u00a0<br>its\u00a0beach sunk\u00a0<s>skyscrapers<\/s>\u00a0fishermen work\u00a0<br>the\u00a0sea, turning (silver?) blue waves into a lush\u00a0\u00a0<br>meditation\u00a0on self-sufficiency \u2013\u2013\u2013\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clouds become planes\u00a0bombENG\u00a0wavy black\u00a0<br>sand. Scattering body parts full of tasteless tea\u00a0<br>and\u00a0rum; swifts hover over the\u00a0<s>gift<\/s>\u00a0carnage.\u00a0<br>What is a seaman\u2019s\u00a0oar\u00a0compared to\u00a0<em>cultuur<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strings of dancers follow the bombs,\u00a0heavenFall\u00a0\u00a0<br>angels\u00a0in the dolphin ballet (Circe cannot touch them!)\u00a0<br>while\u00a0pigs sit doglike as the reels show crawling\u00a0<br>ants\u00a0in Old World graffiti, slums of Mercy:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish, French, Dutch, British + American\u2026\u00a0<br>the\u00a0lightHouse\u00a0burns, nuclear waves\u00a0<br>drop\u00a0swifts from their time-travelling nautical\u00a0<br>flight\u202f\u2013\u2013\u2013\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The black cradle cocooned in cheap Progress.\u00a0<br>$2 dollars an hour Versace\u00a0FABric.\u00a0In another\u00a0<br>sea, Grecian urns crack along with crickets and frogs.\u00a0<br>Camera oil; reddened brown;\u00a0<s>apocalypse<\/s>\u00a0queers eaten\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">again\u00a0and again in The St. Barts Grand Tour.\u00a0\u00a0<br>I love the dreadlocked child; I kiss their\u00a0forehead\u00a0<br>and\u00a0we both live for Dolce &amp;\u00a0Ga<em>vv<\/em>ana\u00a0as young ghouls\u00a0\u00a0<br>snapshot\u00a0our jewels\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&amp;\u00a0<s>dreams<\/s>\u00a0souls. It is the photography of dope\/ the\u00a0<br>closure\u00a0of nativity; beaches blacken into silk\u00a0<br>white\u00a0footprints beneath a mushroomed sky of\u00a0\u00a0<br><em>haute\u00a0couture<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">reflected\u00a0in the blue sea, in the spotless\u00a0\u00a0<br>side\u00a0mirror of Mercedes\u00a0<br>the\u00a0forlorn eyes of fishermen teachers\u00a0\u00a0<br>and\u00a0the Cyclops-media inside helicopter towers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe Grey Vault\u00a0\u00a0 A lighthouse zoomed Britain\/U.S. forlornly\u00a0\u00a0its\u00a0beach sunk\u00a0skyscrapers\u00a0fishermen work\u00a0the\u00a0sea, turning (silver?) blue waves into a lush\u00a0\u00a0meditation\u00a0on self-sufficiency \u2013\u2013\u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Clouds become planes\u00a0bombENG\u00a0wavy black\u00a0sand. Scattering body parts full of tasteless tea\u00a0and\u00a0rum; swifts hover over the\u00a0gift\u00a0carnage.\u00a0What is a seaman\u2019s\u00a0oar\u00a0compared to\u00a0cultuur?\u00a0\u00a0 Strings of&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-grey-vault\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Grey Vault&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/383"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}