{"id":13788,"date":"2020-12-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/two-poems-by-peter-hogan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:33:09","slug":"two-poems-by-peter-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/two-poems-by-peter-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 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has-medium-font-size\">On the football field I am a boy crashing \nagainst a mountain and being pushed back\n\nexcept the mountain is a man who is the trill \nof a steel whistle, a full metal jacket, a shepherd\n\nin the same sense a hangman shepherds \nI am young and losing in front of everyone\n\nIt's not easy being young and a big fella\nevery bigman's dream is to sprout wings \/ we've never been any good at lying flat \/ we are\n\nmeasured by the space we consume, let my cannonball gut be a purpose\nout here, its summer, and the boys circle and howl\n\nWhen a man is nose-to-nose with another man he must break the other nose\nhe must crack the other sternum, bury the other in a coffin of clotted dirt and grass clippings\n\nWho among us knows what they want\nWho among us doesn't try taking everything\n\nThere is a plank we straddle\nThere's a rhythm in the crashing against me now\n\nWe sweat We blink We look like we're hugging \nbut our cleats are anchored in the war and the dirt\n\nEither he moves or I do<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>A good offensive lineman never washes his gloves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">the line of scrimmage is \/ a trench \/ a leathered pigskin \/ digs \/ his chin from mine \/ gnarling \/ ram-bucking \/ ready to fight \/ my eyes locked \/ oil-slicked rifle \/ fire ready \/ he&#8217;s not wearing gloves \/ milk \/ in his cuticles \/ my knuckles \/ stench-scabbed stirring \/ trigger-target \/ his neck \/ grate his calf \/ limburger \/ buckle his knees \/ prayer \/ answer \/ smother \/ the vinegar of my glove \/ inside his mask \/ inside his \/ teeth \/ these are my filthy fingers \/ my blooded spit \/ let them cement \/ his grave \/ may he remember my cleat \/ may he whimper \/ squalor in mud \/ may he \/ get a good look at my back \/ if he gets up \/ rattle his ribcage \/ wind chime \/ another time \/ deep-in-the-shit \/ get over it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Peter Hogan<\/strong> was born and raised in Memphis, TN, and is happy to call it home. He received his MFA in Poetry from the University of Memphis, where he also taught for two years. He currently works in marketing because bills are a thing. His poems can be found in <em>Yemassee<\/em>, <em>The New Plains Review<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rougarou.org\/2018\/08\/airport-security\/\"><em>Rougarou<\/em><\/a>, and more. He can be reached at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:peteghogan@gmail.com\">peteghogan@gmail.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">&lt;&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/two-poems-by-raye-hendrix\/\">Back<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2020\/12\/07\/concussion-by-zachary-hughes\/\">Next<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Hogan __________ Board Drill On the football field I am a boy crashing against a mountain and being pushed back except the mountain is a man who is the trill of a steel whistle, a full metal jacket, a shepherd in the same sense a hangman shepherds I am young and losing in front&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[75,108,145,42],"class_list":["post-13788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-football-20-boudin","tag-boudin","tag-football","tag-poetry-2","tag-hybrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21137,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions\/21137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}