{"id":3173,"date":"2024-09-24T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=3173"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:52:55","slug":"issue-17-poetry-moore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=3173","title":{"rendered":"Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by William Rieppe Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mini cookie cutter cheesecloth moon
over the yellow Iron Mountains of fall
is as impermanent as rattled leaves underneath it.
Not until I\u2019d wheeled along in my mid-size truck
well-past Dollar General on 91\u2014a bumpin
free-trade merchant for the prophesy to come,
did I even see the moon crack its geode in the day.
When I say, mini,<\/em> I mean thumbnail small\u2014
when you hold your arm just like that
with your thumb up as if you were tryin
to hitch a ride with the sky and the fist\u00a0is not quite
closed, like a trade paperback from an outdoor library,
and the hand is positioned as if it could think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn\u2019t say that the mountains, they weren\u2019t
yellow like what you\u2019d see on a primary color wheel.
To be honest the woods were pigmented by what
you get when lots of colors link like a chain from
far away\u2014shades of coral reef folks say
don\u2019t occur in nature or deviate from
natural tones<\/em>\u2014I say I saw coral that color once
on a cruise ship to Guadeloupe, but back to
mountains and the moon that let you see so closely
you might let slip, Boy those mountains<\/em>
and that little thumbnail moon<\/em>. Here I\u2019ll sketch
the moon like this and let itbe confused
for a rambler thumbin to get on down the road
hummin to that fair land to which I go<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Rieppe Moore is from Richland County, South Carolina and moved to Unicoi County, Tennessee with his wife. He started teaching high school English after earning an MA in English from East Tennessee State University. Moore’s poetry has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and appears in Driftwood, Still: The Journal, Blue Earth Review, Appalachian Places,\u00a0Terrain.org<\/a><\/em>, and elsewhere. His work is forthcoming in James Dickey Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by William Rieppe Moore I The mini cookie cutter cheesecloth moonover the yellow Iron Mountains of fallis as impermanent as rattled leaves underneath it.Not until I\u2019d wheeled along in my mid-size truckwell-past Dollar General on 91\u2014a bumpinfree-trade merchant for the prophesy to come,did I even see the moon crack its geode in the day.When I say, mini, I mean thumbnail small\u2014when you hold your arm just like thatwith your thumb up as if you were tryinto hitch a ride with the sky and the fist\u00a0is not quiteclosed, like a trade paperback from an outdoor library,and the hand is positioned as if it could think. II But I didn\u2019t say that the mountains, they weren\u2019tyellow like what you\u2019d see on a primary color wheel.To be honest the woods were pigmented by whatyou get when lots of colors link like a chain fromfar away\u2014shades of coral reef folks saydon\u2019t occur in nature or deviate fromnatural tones\u2014I say I saw coral that color onceon a cruise ship to Guadeloupe, but back tomountains and the moon that let you see so closelyyou might let slip, Boy those mountainsand that little thumbnail moon. Here I\u2019ll sketchthe moon like this and let itbe confusedfor a rambler thumbin to get on down the roadhummin to that fair land to which I go. William Rieppe Moore is from Richland County, South Carolina and moved to Unicoi County, Tennessee with his wife. He started teaching high school English after earning an MA in English from East Tennessee State University. Moore’s poetry has received Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and appears in Driftwood, Still: The Journal, Blue Earth Review, Appalachian Places,\u00a0Terrain.org, and elsewhere. His work is forthcoming in James Dickey Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}