{"id":5601,"date":"2019-10-01T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:00:49","slug":"poetry-ben-keatinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2019\/10\/01\/poetry-ben-keatinge\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry \u2013 Ben Keatinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Vulture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You loom at Madzharovo<br \/>\nthen at Bosilovo<br \/>\nroost at Kalanjevo.<\/p>\n<p>Black pilgrim<br \/>\ncowl of the air<br \/>\ncrossing these skies,<\/p>\n<p>come, we are prone<br \/>\nand torn, numbed,<br \/>\nexpecting your news.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Vulture by Cassandra Voices\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F851535577&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5618 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/west-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"636\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cormorants at Dojran Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fisher Christs are drying their wings<br \/>\na great white pelican gawps<br \/>\nand gives a wide September yawn<br \/>\na prudent heron heeds, and waits.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cormorants at Dojran Lake by Cassandra Voices\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F851537980&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tetovo Buzzards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tetovo buzzards loop high and swoop low,<br \/>\nthey circle the plains across Tetovo,<br \/>\nwith the Vardar they bend, drift the ravines,<br \/>\nwider and deeper, hunting in teams;<br \/>\nthe valleys are empty, the villages small,<br \/>\nthe fields unfenced and the minarets tall;<br \/>\ndid I hear one give a shriek-like \u2018Shqip\u2019<br \/>\nwhen crossing the canyon next to Chiflik?<br \/>\nSwinging from Saraj to Kumanovo<br \/>\nthey reckon the wind, climb as they go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Tetovo Buzzards by Cassandra Voices\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F851541286&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5617\" src=\"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/west-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pelicans at Prespa Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some pelicans festoon the bay<br \/>\nlike summer boats at Howth or Bray<br \/>\nhere to forage, to fish<br \/>\nand fly back across the spit<br \/>\nlike local geese as day grows late<br \/>\nin Prespa or at Donabate<br \/>\nwho swoop on Sutton, or on Rush,<br \/>\nthen tail it to Achilleios.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pelicans at Prespa Lake by Cassandra Voices\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F851542624&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Benjamin Keatinge\u00a0is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His poetry has appeared in Orbis, Eborakon, The Galway Review, Agenda and Flare and is forthcoming in Writing Home: The \u2018New Irish\u2019 Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019). He is editor of Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy (Cork University Press, 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Pictures by Hristo Peshev. Bulgarian conservationist and wildlife photographer who works as field work co-ordinator at the Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria specializing in vulture conservation.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/fwff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/fwff.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570118515013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGygU--pokMcFPjvKogngDbP4pHbQ\">https:\/\/fwff.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Vulture You loom at Madzharovo then at Bosilovo roost at Kalanjevo. Black pilgrim cowl of the air crossing these skies, come, we are prone and torn, numbed, expecting your news. Cormorants at Dojran Lake The fisher Christs are drying their wings a great white pelican gawps and gives a wide September yawn a prudent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":5619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019october"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}