{"id":12824,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2016-07-29T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:56:23","slug":"prairie-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12824","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think you can return to that place,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>reed-rift and smelling of blackbirds\u2019<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________________<\/span>oily feathers. The flickered burning<br \/>\nof our faces held under the wet sky, one illumination<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>after another. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>Dearest friend, remember the slick want<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________________<\/span>of our mouths. How we pressed<br \/>\nthem to the earth and raised her hackles. Too often<br \/>\nthe prairie heats its blade against our ribs\u2014<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>a promise to end every horizon. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______________________________<\/span>So now gather<br \/>\nyour hair in preparation of reaping &#8212;<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>sing hallelujah,<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________<\/span>sing jettison<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>and we\u2019ll rise ravenous and repenting.<\/p>\n<p>You know as well as I the mass of carcass<br \/>\nin the weight of these small castings.<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span>Fold yourself into a prism &#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>whatever we reflect can\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>Just the flies. Just<br \/>\nthe eternity of dead leaves and their skyward<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>pandering. You ask me where our house has gone<br \/>\nand I\u2019m not sure if I should say<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________<\/span>burned or buried.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">__________________<\/span>The clotheslines have all gone slack and want<br \/>\nour necks.\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>In your next life,<br \/>\ncome back frog. They\u2019ll covet your legs, but no one<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________________________________<\/span>can forget your calling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Margaret Cipriano<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think you can return to that place, _____reed-rift and smelling of blackbirds\u2019 _________________________oily feathers. The flickered burning of our faces held under the wet sky, one illumination_____after another. _____Dearest friend, remember the slick want _________________________of our mouths. How we pressed them to the earth and raised her hackles. Too often the prairie heats its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"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":[48],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3kQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824"}],"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\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13001,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions\/13001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}