In the morning, the sleet —<\/p>\n
the sleet in the morning past the overhang<\/p>\n
will make a hard line between past —<\/p>\n
a hard line between our time<\/p>\n
and most of the time, you in the doorway —<\/p>\n
most of you past the doorway, my heart —<\/p>\n
can I say my heart?<\/p>\n
can I say like a flicked sheet floats —<\/p>\n
a bed sheet floating away from grasping hands?<\/p>\n
In the grasp of the bed I watch the door close,<\/p>\n
that closing like the sheet’s crumped, off-centered fall. <\/p>\n
This is a kind of praying<\/em> you say —<\/p>\n you say this, it is still night.<\/p>\n And yes, like a prayer, said every night<\/p>\n and yes dear heavenly —<\/p>\n pale chests pressed like heaven-bent palms,<\/p>\n bent supplicants pressing, asking<\/p>\n may I ask something more<\/p>\n of something more,<\/p>\n something more pressing —<\/p>\n pressing as if it were the boundary between us, <\/p>\n the erasing of it, that would answer the prayer. <\/p>\n In the morning, the sleet — the sleet in the morning past the overhang will make a hard line between past — a hard line between our time and most of the time, you in the doorway — most of you past the doorway, my heart — can I say my heart? can I say […]<\/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\/s6Jypy-prayer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649"}],"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=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Marielle Prince<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"