{"id":12618,"date":"2016-03-12T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2016-03-12T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:29:27","slug":"dirty-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12618","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Listen, even a lullaby can bleed.&#8221; &#8212; Osip Mandelstam<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Say my name like the last bright syllable<br \/>\nof olive in a martini glass, your tongue<\/p>\n<p>an eel deranged with moonlight<br \/>\nsquiggling at the bottom of a gasoline-<\/p>\n<p>dark sea. I&#8217;ve tested all the condoms,<br \/>\nfilled them with champagne, imagined<\/p>\n<p>a tiny house inside the reservoir tip<br \/>\nwhere unborn children catch fireflies in a wet field, <\/p>\n<p>their fingers pulsing with light<br \/>\nevery time we play Pull-Out Roulette<\/p>\n<p>or the latex doesn&#8217;t break, a choreography<br \/>\nof blackout and bioluminescence plagiarized<\/p>\n<p>from an oyster&#8217;s bristled sheen. Love, we are ancient<br \/>\nas the first people who learned to screw standing up<\/p>\n<p>against a pine tree. Only your murmurs can staunch<br \/>\nthe fissures inside me. Touch me like an assassin<\/p>\n<p>strokes the steps of a church. Say my name<br \/>\nuntil I glow, engorged and radiant<\/p>\n<p>as a tick boasting her blood-swollen<br \/>\nhunger without shame.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12610\">Kendra DeColo<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Listen, even a lullaby can bleed.&#8221; &#8212; Osip Mandelstam Say my name like the last bright syllable of olive in a martini glass, your tongue an eel deranged with moonlight squiggling at the bottom of a gasoline- dark sea. I&#8217;ve tested all the condoms, filled them with champagne, imagined a tiny house inside the reservoir [&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":[47],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3hw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618"}],"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=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}