{"id":37493,"date":"2024-12-07T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=37493"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:37:00","slug":"one-poem-by-robert-grunst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/one-poem-by-robert-grunst\/","title":{"rendered":"One Poem by Robert Grunst"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Found in <\/strong>Willow Springs <\/em><\/strong>94<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOVE \/ BENEATH<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

                                                                                              in memoriam\u2014L\u00e1szl\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still here he is sitting on his three-legged stool with his secateurs beneath
His grape arbor, my friend, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 . . . full of cancer<\/em>, he says,
And there\u2019s nothing they can do<\/em>. Not when the cancer\u2019s every place.
And every place there is the foxy scent of fully ripened
Swenson grapes. There\u2019s the R\u00e1ba gliding toward its meeting place
with the Danube, past L\u00e1szl\u00f3\u2019s father\u2019s vineyard\u2019s rows.
The family tailor shop is on B\u00fckk Utca. Not far from the basilica.
For all at once we\u2019re in Gy\u00f6r\u2014along with musical accompaniment\u2014
Two humming Berninas<\/em>, their spindles riding up and down. And heels
And soles. The lovely dance between the husband and the wife. Foot pedals.
Shoes and hands. Then German storm troopers. Aerial bombardments
Then. Then Red Army troops. His parents\u2019 deaths. And L\u00e1szl\u00f3,
Seventeen, condemned to Siberia. \u201845 \u2013 \u201848. And for starch, not for
Sizing but to stay alive, here\u2019s L\u00e1szl\u00f3 eating popular bark. As all the gulag
Wood-cutter-prisoners. And bleeding gums. Scrofula. Unrelenting flux.
Here is the eucharist bestowed in a freeze-killed flock of rose finches
Found beneath a pea shrub bush. Men pocketing and eating them with
Everything inside. And lived and died and died and lived. Relocating here
To St. Paul. To resume tailoring. Growing grapes. Stirring up Bordeaux
Mix. Trees exploded nights. The temperature dropped below 30\u00b0 Celsius.
What\u2019s true is true. A perfect zigzag stitch. Us now. Drinking P\u00e1linka.
How else. It must be so. Like two starving lynx. Like five starving rabbits
Panic-frozen in their wickered osier pen. Beneath the backyard mulberry tree.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":41002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37493"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38831,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37493\/revisions\/38831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}