{"id":99,"date":"2008-05-16T00:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=99"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T21:45:11","slug":"the-house-that-emma-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/05\/the-house-that-emma-built","title":{"rendered":"The House that Emma Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the House that Emma Built<br \/>\nThere are two chambers<br \/>\nOne looks upon the other<br \/>\nAnd the other looks outward<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A turntable spins <em>ye-ye<\/em><br \/>\nA darkness sleeps in fits<br \/>\nA cat speaks in Mandarin<br \/>\nand the walls, last forever<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A man is hidden under the boards<br \/>\nWhile the window glares on its curtains<br \/>\nAll lines cast suspicions<br \/>\non the vagueries of nature&#8217;s curve<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Brightly bit, sound asleep<br \/>\nexposed in so many tears<br \/>\nand projected through with<br \/>\nthe light of shining wit<br \/>\na drama in black and white<br \/>\nand a tragedy in color<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The turntable spins <em>ye-ye<\/em><br \/>\nthe dance party is over<br \/>\nand the cat licks its chops<br \/>\nin the house that emma built<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">in a sub-basement that the house built<br \/>\nin a different plane, on a scale removed<br \/>\nthe memories of the house dream an emma<br \/>\ncast in infrared and animated with love<br \/>\na panoply of spirits shimmering and laughing<br \/>\ncooking and breathing and weaving a guitar out of old chord<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">kittens act out Siysphus with a ball of twine<br \/>\non a mountain of folded laundry<br \/>\nthe bicycle room looks upon the garden<br \/>\nand echoes with the ring of rusty belling<br \/>\na friend is dozed upon the chaise casting spells<br \/>\nof resurrection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">awaken dear emma, awaken<br \/>\nlife under rebar and concrete oppression<br \/>\nerodes all homes with moisture and oxygen<br \/>\nthe house becomes the garden, the window the way through<br \/>\nthe emma &#8212; the notion, and the idea &#8212; a means to<br \/>\nawake dear emma, awake<br \/>\nand live in musical tires, with spyrographs drunk in honey<br \/>\nand fungus budding through floorboards, over sweet oceans<br \/>\nin time with all awakening<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">the house becomes the emma<br \/>\na smile simply drawn<br \/>\nin parametric models<br \/>\ngrown from new math<br \/>\nall the lawns have been banished<br \/>\nand the asphalt all ground up<br \/>\nwhat becomes is Now is emergent<br \/>\nthis house that emma built<br \/>\na lattice of dreams in habit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem for a housemate in Baton Rouge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The House that Emma Built &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/05\/the-house-that-emma-built\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The House that Emma Built &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"a poem for a housemate in Baton Rouge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/05\/the-house-that-emma-built\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-16T05:24:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-01T21:45:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aharons-omphalos.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1257\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. 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