{"id":101,"date":"2006-05-08T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=101"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T09:02:52","slug":"michael-r-burch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/michael-r-burch\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael R. Burch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Michael R. Burch<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20060508-Michael.JPG' width='140' height='153' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nMichael R. Burch is the poetry editor of The HyperTexts. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared over 400 times in literary journals and sundry publications in the USA, <br \/>\n<!--more-->England, Scotland, Canada, India, South Africa and Australia, including: Poetry Magazine, Light Quarterly, The Chariton Review, The Lyric, The Neovictorian\/Cochlea, The Best of the Eclectic Muse (1989-2003), Poet Lore, The New Formalist, Piedmont Literary Review, Iambs &amp; Trochees, The Raintown Review, Mandrake, ByLine, Verse Libre, Unlikely Stories, Penumbra and Nebo. He has a personal poetry web site (doesn&#8217;t everyone, and their dog?) at michaelburch.com.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tremble<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Her predatory eye,<br \/>\nthe single feral iris,<br \/>\nscans.<\/p>\n<p>Her raptor beak,<br \/>\nall jagged sharp-edged thrust,<br \/>\njuts.<\/p>\n<p>Her hard talon,<br \/>\nclenched in pinched expectation,<br \/>\nwaits.<\/p>\n<p>Her clipped wings,<br \/>\npreened against reality,<br \/>\ntremble.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published by The Lyric<\/p>\n<p><b>See<\/b><\/p>\n<p>See how her hair has thinned: it does not seem<br \/>\nlike hair at all, but like the airy moult<br \/>\nof emus who outraced the wind and left<br \/>\nsoft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes<br \/>\nare gentler now; see how each wrinkle laughs,<br \/>\nand deepens on itself, as though mirth took<br \/>\nsome comfort there and burrowed deeply in,<br \/>\noutlasting winter. See how very thin<br \/>\nher features are&#8211;that time has made more spare,<br \/>\nso that each bone shows, elegant and rare.<\/p>\n<p>For loveliness remains in her grave eyes,<br \/>\nand courage in her still-delighted looks:<br \/>\neach face presented like a picture book\u2019s.<br \/>\nBemused, she blows us undismayed goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published by Writer\u2019s Digest\u2019s The Year\u2019s Best Writing (2003) and The Eclectic Muse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael R. Burch Michael R. Burch is the poetry editor of The HyperTexts. He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared over 400 times in literary journals and sundry publications in the USA,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}