{"id":5757,"date":"2010-03-22T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2010-03-22T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T12:51:38","slug":"headline-triggers-a-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/headline-triggers-a-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline Triggers A Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a headline in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/em>: Incorporation of Okauchee Lake area under study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which reminds me, I might be the only man in history to have used Okauchee Lake<\/em> in a sonnet:<\/p>\n

Okauchee Light<\/b><\/p>\n

Across the dark Okauchee lake, a light,
\nthe marker for the end of someone’s dock,
\nis strangely lit at nearly twelve o’clock
\nand breaks the solid black that is the night.
\nFrom here, across the chilling April lake,
\nthrough busy bar room glass I see that glow,
\nbut life or rooms beyond I’ll never know.
\nOne light does not a utopia make.
\nQuite like your smile, that single man-made star:
\nUp there, on stage, you flash a smile at me,
\nand crinkle eyes to give the gesture weight,
\nbut like the dock-end light, you are too far;
\nyour glow is there for someone else to see,
\nand now, for me at least, it is too late.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in the early 1990s, in my sonneting days, my friends and I followed a band called the Surf Boys from festival to festival in Milwaukee. The band was Nick, the lead singer, a guitarist named Dave, a keyboardist named Debbie, and a drummer. However, these backup players were not the original Surf Boys, and when they wanted to reunite, they cast off the other players. One night, we drove out to a bar on Okauchee Lake to see the Dave, Debbie, et al, in their non-Surf Boys incarnation. I ended up writing a sonnet about it. Not that I was that interested in Debbie, per se; she was cute, but I think I had a sum of one conversation with her throughout. But I thought the sonnet has a cool Great Gatsby<\/em> vibe, and a musician on stage does offer a good unattainable woman conceit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a headline in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Incorporation of Okauchee Lake area under study. Which reminds me, I might be the only man in history to have used Okauchee Lake in a sonnet: Okauchee Light Across the dark Okauchee lake, a light, the marker for the end of someone’s dock, is strangely lit at nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5760,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}