{"id":3098,"date":"2023-12-01T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=3098"},"modified":"2023-12-03T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:19:49","slug":"semantic-hunger-by-kenton-yee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/semantic-hunger-by-kenton-yee\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SEMANTIC HUNGER&#8221; by Kenton K. Yee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It floats tonight \n \t       inside my head,\narousing insomnia,    \n \nphobias, stubborn bottled-\n      ketchup boredom \ndespite my investment in pills.\n \nBy morning it\u2019s become \na golden, lumpy,\nbulbous branchiate\u2014fancy-fin pet   \n \nin a rotund bowl, aloof \n                droopy-eyed feline fish.\nFor decades now I\u2019ve hushed \n \nits muffled murmurs as if \neach grumble were  \na pinscher growling at the mailman\n \nor a river overflowing \nits levee, washing away\nmy quay. But the bowl fish,\n \nstressing about its aerator kaput\n   in yet another blackout, \nkisses the meniscus open-mouthed, \n \ngills paddling, wondering, Will \n           today\u2019s mail be spam and bills\nor language from a friend?\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kenton K. Yee\u2019s<\/strong> recent poems appear (or will soon) in <em>Plume Poetry, Threepenny Review, Constellations, TAB Journal, I-70 Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Terrain.org, Sugar House Review, McNeese Review,<\/em> and <em>Rattle<\/em>, among others. Kenton holds a PhD from UCLA and law and business degrees from Stanford. He writes from Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It floats tonight inside my head, arousing insomnia, phobias, stubborn bottled- ketchup boredom despite my investment in pills. By morning it\u2019s become a golden, lumpy, bulbous branchiate\u2014fancy-fin pet in a rotund bowl, aloof droopy-eyed feline fish. For decades now I\u2019ve hushed its muffled murmurs as if each grumble were a pinscher growling at the mailman &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/semantic-hunger-by-kenton-yee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;SEMANTIC HUNGER&#8221; by Kenton K. Yee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3098","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}