{"id":70702,"date":"2017-10-26T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70702"},"modified":"2017-10-28T06:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:25:23","slug":"the-poetry-of-stirling-noh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=70702","title":{"rendered":"The Jonestown Trio \u2013 Volume II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(The first three poems of Stirling Noh&#8217;s Jonestown collection appear <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40261\">here<\/a>.\u00a0He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:stirling.noh@gmail.com\">stirling.noh@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a young man<br \/>\nsearching for himself<br \/>\nwrites a song to welcome<br \/>\nthe people to the temple<\/p>\n<p>children raise their voices<br \/>\nand stir the hearts of those<br \/>\nwho believe they have found<br \/>\na home<\/p>\n<p>but far away a muggy void looms<br \/>\nto drown the innocent chorus<br \/>\nin the shrieks of mothers<br \/>\nforced to say goodbye<br \/>\nforever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Passport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hiding in the jungle<br \/>\nyou steal your life from a thief<br \/>\nbusy stealing many more<br \/>\na shot in the dark<br \/>\nfinishes the robbery<br \/>\nreveal yourself to the empty afterglow<br \/>\nscramble to find the key<br \/>\nto your cage<\/p>\n<p>now fly back to the prison<br \/>\nyou escaped not long ago<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tourist Trap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>nature clawed back all it could<br \/>\nbut the ghosts lie in wait<br \/>\nto haunt the tourists who would come<br \/>\nto revel in what came to be<br \/>\nnot the beauty that might have been<br \/>\nif the betrayed had been left to tend the land<br \/>\nthey claimed from the jungle<\/p>\n<p>the thrills of macabre imagination<br \/>\nleave a bitter taste<br \/>\nin the muted mouth of dignity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The first three poems of Stirling Noh&#8217;s Jonestown collection appear here.\u00a0He can be reached at stirling.noh@gmail.com.) Welcome a young man searching for himself writes a song to welcome the people to the temple children raise their voices and stir the hearts of those who believe they have found a home but far away a muggy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71043,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70707,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70702\/revisions\/70707"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}