{"id":5086,"date":"2010-10-25T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:03:30","slug":"a-ghost-abandons-the-haunted-poem-by-katie-cappello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/a-ghost-abandons-the-haunted-poem-by-katie-cappello\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ghost Abandons the Haunted, poem by Katie Cappello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Life in Poetry<\/em>: Column 292. By <strong>Ted Koose<\/strong>r, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s our <strong>Halloween poem<\/strong> for 2010:<\/p>\n<h2>A Ghost Abandons the Haunted<\/h2>\n<p>     by <strong>Katie Cappello<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You ignore the way light filters through my cells,<br \/>\nthe way I have of fading out\u2014still<br \/>\nthere is a constant tug, a stretching,<br \/>\nwhat is left of me is coming loose. Soon,<\/p>\n<p>I will be only crumbs of popcorn,<br \/>\na blue ring in the tub, an empty<br \/>\ntoilet paper roll, black mold<br \/>\nmisted on old sponges,<\/p>\n<p>strands of hair woven into<br \/>\ncarpet, a warped door<br \/>\nthat won\u2019t open, the soft spot<br \/>\nin an avocado, celery, a pear,<\/p>\n<p>a metallic taste in the beer, a cold sore<br \/>\non your lip\u2014and when I finally lose my hold<br \/>\nyou will hear a rustle and watch me spill<br \/>\ngrains of rice across the cracked tile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Cappello lives in Northern California.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Life in Poetry is made possible by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/\">The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine<\/a>. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright \u00a92009 by Katie Cappello, from her first book of poetry, Perpetual Care, Elixir Press, 2009. Reprinted by permission of Katie Cappello and the publisher. Introduction copyright \u00a92010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction&#8217;s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Life in Poetry: Column 292. By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 Here\u2019s our Halloween poem for 2010: A Ghost Abandons the Haunted by Katie Cappello You ignore the way light filters through my cells, the way I have of fading out\u2014still there is a constant tug, a stretching, what is left of me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}