{"id":51082,"date":"2012-12-23T18:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=51082"},"modified":"2012-12-23T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T22:22:19","slug":"diaz-ballad-of-kukulkan-other-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/diaz-ballad-of-kukulkan-other-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of K’uk’ulkan & other poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jos \u00e9 Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez D\u00c3\u00adaz.<\/p>\n

The Ocean Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n

fountain sounding smolder
\nhawthorn lake lithe
\ncistern coerce the <\/p>\n

rainfall sitting tree
\npurple petal smoke
\nbluish dilemma<\/p>\n

concise never fluid
\nconduit plural
\nof chant miter open <\/p>\n

vacant shopping
\ncart summer asphalt
\nneuoro bliss sixteen<\/p>\n

canopy snake foreseen
\nriver belittle
\nwithout fathom can <\/p>\n

nothing sitting tree.<\/p>\n

Ballad of K’uk’ulkan <\/strong><\/p>\n

sacred feathered snake
\njaguar jade and purple sun
\nsacred feathered snake
\njaguar jade and purple sun <\/p>\n

thirteen rabbit rise
\neagle drum and orange moon
\nthirteen rabbit rise
\neagle drum and orange moon<\/p>\n

shadows on the lake
\nfloating gardens feathers bloom
\nshadows on the lake
\nfloating gardens feathers bloom<\/p>\n

never will<\/strong><\/p>\n

A shore A mind <\/em><\/p>\n

the seven angled fluid room of thought
\nexpands to writhe upon the page<\/p>\n

with livid river slant a frame of stone and
\ncraft an anvil mantle shifted crane<\/p>\n

upon an age of withered scale the
\nflinted names of things escapes<\/p>\n

the night of blue and grey
\nbeneath the oval moon<\/p>\n

a trail of clouds
\ndissolves in flame<\/p>\n

A thought A lake
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The strength of tigers (separates us from what we feel is open space)<\/strong><\/p>\n

III.<\/p>\n

Fountain sounding smolder hawthorn lake lithe cistern coerce the rainfall<\/p>\n

Bluish dilemma concise never fluid conduit plural of bliss sixteen canopy snake<\/p>\n

Foreseen river belittle<\/p>\n

VII.<\/p>\n

Sitting tree purple petal smoke blossoms
\nChant miter open
\n Vacant shopping cart summer
\nAsphalt neuoro without fathom can nothing
\n \t Sitting Tree.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nJos \u00e9 Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez D\u00c3\u00adaz<\/strong> has been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology 2011<\/em>, Bombay Gin Literary Journal<\/em>, The Progressive Magazine<\/em>, Poetry Flash<\/em>, Counterexample Poetics<\/em>, The Delinquent<\/em> (UK), ditch poetry<\/em> (CAN), Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal<\/em>, Kuikatl ~ A XicanIndio Literary & Arts Journal<\/em>, BlazeVOX12<\/em>, among others. He is an MFA candidate at Antioch University Los Angeles, where he serves as co-poetry editor of Lunch Ticket<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

the seven angled fluid room of thought
\nexpands to writhe upon the page<\/p>\n

with livid river slant a frame of stone and
\ncraft an anvil mantle shifted crane<\/p>\n

upon an age of withered scale the
\nflinted names of things escapes<\/p>\n

the night of blue and grey
\nbeneath the oval moon<\/p>\n

By Jos \u00e9 Hern\u00c3\u00a1ndez D\u00c3\u00adaz.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}