{"id":9940,"date":"2010-11-25T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/arc-sampler-three-poems-by-joshua-trotter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:13:25","slug":"arc-sampler-three-poems-by-joshua-trotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/arc-sampler-three-poems-by-joshua-trotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc Sampler: Three poems by Joshua Trotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Continuation of the History of Utopia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were &#8220;birds&#8221; whose purpose was to record<br \/>\nthe movements of the masses, to repeat<br \/>\nworking-class conversation verbatim.<br \/>\nI remember duplicate silhouettes<br \/>\nalong power-lines, where they\u2019d match up<br \/>\nand watch us talk hand-in-hand in the dusk.<br \/>\nTheir eyes were peepholes we couldn\u2019t shrink from;<br \/>\nPinpricks the crimson sunset seeped through.<br \/>\nAnd yet, in less time than predicted, we\u2019d quit<br \/>\ndescribing the incised rubies of their eyes<br \/>\nor questioning to whom they sang their reports.<br \/>\nWe lived as always, sporting and shopping<br \/>\nand pausing at times to noiselessly cheer<br \/>\nsome crow, confused by the cameras,<br \/>\ngouging lenses loose, enraged by their beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See two more poems by Joshua Trotter from his new book, &#8220;All This Could Be Yours&#8221; in Arc 65, along with an interview with his editor, Zachariah Wells. To subscribe or order sample issues please click <a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/?page_id=1295\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\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":"<p>Continuation of the History of Utopia There were &#8220;birds&#8221; whose purpose was to record the movements of the masses, to repeat working-class conversation verbatim. I remember duplicate silhouettes along power-lines, where they\u2019d match up and watch us talk hand-in-hand in the dusk. Their eyes were peepholes we couldn\u2019t shrink from; Pinpricks the crimson sunset seeped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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":"10480","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1665],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[47],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3148],"topic":[3258],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940"}],"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=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/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=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}