{"id":12480,"date":"2015-12-04T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12480"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:41:18","slug":"leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12480","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the flood, only the top bars<br \/>\nof soccer goals are visible&#8211;fragments<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>of borders in the field.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________________________________<\/span>Round bales across the road<br \/>\nferment in standing water.<br \/>\nSand bags<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________<\/span>stacked along the shoulder of the insterstate<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>anticipate more rise.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>***<\/p>\n<p>The day I left,<br \/>\nmy mother asked why<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________<\/span>can&#8217;t we be like we used to be?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________________<\/span>That morning<br \/>\nI saw an Amish farmer<br \/>\npull his buggy into the turning lane<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________________________<\/span>of a major highway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>***<\/p>\n<p>On my way west<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________________________<\/span>there is new<br \/>\nwater. Missouri and Nebraska<br \/>\nflood days after Tennessee.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____________________________<\/span>Ahead of the rain,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________<\/span>lightning<br \/>\nbugs hover above rows of beans,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________<\/span>anticipating dark. A storm<br \/>\nsets them off&#8211;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>flashes as far back<br \/>\nas the edge of the field.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________<\/span>***<\/p>\n<p>The horse was tentative, wanted<br \/>\nto cross to the shoulder.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________________<\/span>The farmer held the reins<br \/>\ntight in his hands,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________________<\/span>waited for cars to pass<br \/>\nbefore giving the <em>tick, tick<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>that started the horse<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________________<\/span>across the pavement.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12427\">Stephanie McCarley Dugger<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the flood, only the top bars of soccer goals are visible&#8211;fragments ________of borders in the field. ________________________________Round bales across the road ferment in standing water. Sand bags ___________stacked along the shoulder of the insterstate _______anticipate more rise. _______________*** The day I left, my mother asked why ______________can&#8217;t we be like we used to be? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"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":[46],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3fi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480"}],"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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12492,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}