{"id":51118,"date":"2013-01-12T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=51118"},"modified":"2013-01-14T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:17:44","slug":"ode-to-a-1980s-baton-twirling-world-champion-other-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/ode-to-a-1980s-baton-twirling-world-champion-other-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a 1980s Baton Twirling World Champion &amp; other poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Francine Elena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ode to a 1980s Baton Twirling World Champion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The baton rolls and blurs asp-like around<br \/>\nGirl neck. O elastic Cleopatra<br \/>\nAmphetamina, stung insanity,<br \/>\nHounded by a sound like a bumblebee.<\/p>\n<p>O pink puck, you buck, hurl; maenad Odette<br \/>\nWhirling out the jewel box. Frou-frou roulette,<br \/>\nTricking probability. O rah-rah&#8217;d<br \/>\nNeon imp, you out-fox flexible bounds,<\/p>\n<p>Tempestuous flea, fugitive judo,<br \/>\nImpeccable feat. In the final beats,<br \/>\nYou flourish like a grinning flamingo,<br \/>\nBig eyes to the bleachers, big empty seats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A\/W<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This autumn-winter<br \/>\nWe tweet burka hyenas,<br \/>\nDeath meteor frocks.<\/p>\n<p>This autumn-winter<br \/>\nWe eat flashbulbs like sunshine,<br \/>\nCocaine like lotus.<\/p>\n<p>This autumn-winter<br \/>\nWe wear ether pyjamas.<br \/>\nSubscribe to our blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballerina Tricks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cranberry blueberry calorie pear.<br \/>\nWheat-free warm up Lycra demi-pli \u00e9.<br \/>\nI look at myself till nothing is there.<\/p>\n<p>Taffeta cartilage, sugar plum stare.<br \/>\nGelato swirl gossamer temps lev \u00e9.<br \/>\nCranberry blueberry calorie pear.<\/p>\n<p>Tchaikovsky peonies, tiara care.<br \/>\nSequin floating sinew soak, temps frapp \u00e9.<br \/>\nI look at myself till nothing is there.<\/p>\n<p>Egg white, spray-frosted, Slavic princess hair.<br \/>\nShoulder blade wings, dove-chested grande jet \u00e9.<br \/>\nCranberry blueberry calorie pear.<\/p>\n<p>Looking glass looking glass ligament tear.<br \/>\nPan stick binge fairy cake cherry glac \u00e9.<br \/>\nI look at myself till nothing is there.<\/p>\n<p>Ballon bulimia satin en l&#8217;air.<br \/>\nTiptoe tiptoe snow drop swan down tomb \u00e9.<br \/>\nCranberry blueberry calorie pear.<br \/>\nI look at myself till nothing is there.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FrancineElena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FrancineElena.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FrancineElena-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Francine Elena<\/strong> graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2008. Having grown up in England, Scotland and Portugal she has lived and worked in London for the past four years. In Autumn 2012 she started the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sincerelyfiction.com\">Sincerely, Fiction<\/a>. One day, she wants to live on a Greek Island with parakeets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FrancineElena-420x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-51121\" \/><\/p>\n<p>O pink puck, you buck, hurl; maenad Odette<br \/>\nWhirling out the jewel box. Frou-frou roulette,<br \/>\nTricking probability. O rah-rah&#8217;d<br \/>\nNeon imp, you out-fox flexible bounds,<\/p>\n<p>Tempestuous flea, fugitive judo,<br \/>\nImpeccable feat. In the final beats,<br \/>\nYou flourish like a grinning flamingo,<br \/>\nBig eyes to the bleachers, big empty seats.<\/p>\n<p>By <strong> Francine Elena.<\/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-51118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51118","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=51118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}