{"id":1099,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:38:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:38:56","slug":"southern-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/1099","title":{"rendered":"Southern Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is different. See it bend<br \/>\nlike fingers of a man at the shaft<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>of his penis\u2014watch it grab<\/p>\n<p>to what it wants like it already<br \/>\nowns it. Has the what-you-looking-at<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____<\/span>kind of eyes, before it flings<\/p>\n<p>back on the blackish river. Don\u2019t ever<br \/>\napologize. Don\u2019t ever bat a lash. Never<br \/>\nasks, River, can I use<\/p>\n<p>your great, big old body,<br \/>\ncan I use it like a trumpet<br \/>\ndoes his player (and don\u2019t you<\/p>\n<p>look at those lips when they through),<br \/>\ncan I use you like a plate,<br \/>\nlike a piece of metal\u2014to see<\/p>\n<p>the white glitter of myself?<br \/>\nYeah\u2014I know it\u2019s a mess.<br \/>\nI know it\u2019s just like jazz. All the men,<\/p>\n<p>seated, their lip-smacking, brown eyes<br \/>\nwinking, saying <em>Lay<\/em> <em>it on me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let me feel it<\/em> <em>in the gut. <\/em>\u2014And that light<\/p>\n<p>spot-blinking off the brass pipes,<br \/>\nmouthing <em>What you say, boy?<\/em><br \/>\nmouthing <em>What<\/em>?<\/p>\n<h6><a title=\"Spring 2010 Contributors\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693\">Rickey Laurentiis<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is different. See it bend like fingers of a man at the shaft ________of his penis\u2014watch it grab to what it wants like it already owns it. Has the what-you-looking-at ________kind of eyes, before it flings back on the blackish river. Don\u2019t ever apologize. Don\u2019t ever bat a lash. Never asks, River, can I use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-hJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}