{"id":12641,"date":"2016-03-21T00:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:32:24","slug":"piano-night-at-the-saint-paul-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12641","title":{"rendered":"Piano Night at the Saint Paul Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds smoke overhead and the pianist\u2019s fingers<br \/>\nare tipped with gold and jessamine.<br \/>\nCutting sticks for our fire,<br \/>\nswirling scotch, inscribing himself<br \/>\ninto the script of the second world.<br \/>\nThere are some here who\u2019d like to go with him.<\/p>\n<p>We see them holding black cats<br \/>\non heavy windowsills, staring down<br \/>\nthe nightfall not thinking about rain<br \/>\nor books or bars. Only the sound<br \/>\nhis fingers wrought from that trellis.<\/p>\n<p>Honeysuckle rooting voracious into the house,<br \/>\nletting the snow fall in. February\u2019s only consolation,<br \/>\nour tulip-less hearts open at last to winter, giving<br \/>\nover to its sad genius. If the piano wants our money<\/p>\n<p>or talents, if the snow is even now piling<br \/>\non the kitchen counter, the black cats streaking<br \/>\nround, tails cocked like treble clefs. If we all lie down<br \/>\nacross our tables, arms under our heads and reaching out,<br \/>\nmeet at our fingertips. If the music<br \/>\nencases us, ants euphoric in the pine sap, mercy<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll take it. <\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12610\">Brianna Flavin<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds smoke overhead and the pianist\u2019s fingers are tipped with gold and jessamine. Cutting sticks for our fire, swirling scotch, inscribing himself into the script of the second world. There are some here who\u2019d like to go with him. We see them holding black cats on heavy windowsills, staring down the nightfall not thinking about [&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-3hT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641"}],"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=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}