{"id":9932,"date":"2010-11-25T20:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/former-arc-poet-in-residence-five-poems-by-elise-partridge\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:20:23","slug":"former-arc-poet-in-residence-five-poems-by-elise-partridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/former-arc-poet-in-residence-five-poems-by-elise-partridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Arc Poet-in-Residence: Five poems by Elise Partridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Elise Partridge<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Range<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Bulbous, chromed like a Fifties car;<br \/>\nfifty years old, like the house;<br \/>\nonly one burner still lit\u2014<br \/>\neven unwatched pots wouldn\u2019t boil.<br \/>\nOffhand advice said junk it.<br \/>\nBut not our friend Klaus.<\/p>\n<p>Clanking, he leapt from his truck,<br \/>\ncranked the stove\u2019s snowy hood;<br \/>\npeered into glass-fuse orbs.<br \/>\nGingerroot thumbs nudged coils.<br \/>\nWith falcon-beak pliers, he stirred<br \/>\nblack-lava reaches of crud,<\/p>\n<p>knit frizzing wire. He eased<br \/>\nthe range sideways, humming;<br \/>\ndraped copper around new bolts,<br \/>\nstrands over a child\u2019s ear;<br \/>\ntapped; squinted; hovered\u2014<br \/>\nruddying, a quartet of suns.<\/p>\n<p>Klaus shook his head at our cheque,<br \/>\nscooped tools, patted the stove\u2019s<br \/>\nchipped door. \u201cBake me two stollen.\u201d<br \/>\nWith your double labor of love<br \/>\nyou will have given us hundreds,<br \/>\nand all you ask is two loaves.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>See four more new poems by Elise Partridge in Arc 65. To subscribe or order sample issues please click <a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/?page_id=1295\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>published in <em>Arc<\/em> 65<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arc65_thumbnail.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2416\" src=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Arc65_thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"9934,10438,10329,10324","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1552],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[47],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3148],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}