{"id":12835,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2016-07-23T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T08:55:42","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12835","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>All signs point toward the heart<br \/>\nof the woods. Enter &amp; you\u2019ll come across<br \/>\na makeshift fort of branches, blankets. Lost<br \/>\nto the weeds: muddied magazines, baseball cards,<br \/>\na juicebox half-buried in the dirt. Somewhere <\/p>\n<p>in the woods, a creek waits for rain. <em>Somewhere,<\/em><br \/>\na boy says, <em>is a good place to go.<\/em> From afar<br \/>\na train sounds its first warning. Follow the boy<br \/>\nwho holds his brother\u2019s hand on the highway<br \/>\n&amp; when headlights approach, walks at the light\u2019s <\/p>\n<p>edge. Listen: forgo the road for the glass<br \/>\n-filled shoulder. On a porch a woman holds<br \/>\na child between her knees &amp; braids her hair<br \/>\nin the dark. A man admires his car\u2019s clean<br \/>\nwhitewalls &amp; soap suds coat the rosebush,<\/p>\n<p>obscuring its thorns. Here, even an oil slick<br \/>\nbeneath a broke-down Buick knows something<br \/>\nof iridescence. Having fled a pack of kids<br \/>\nwielding bats, a rabbit\u2019s safe below a car<br \/>\nwhose lights were left on. Soon, its battery <\/p>\n<p>will die. Go inside. Shine your old flashlight<br \/>\nin the flooded basement. See anything left<br \/>\nin here for you to salvage? The family<br \/>\nwho once lived here smoothed menthol<br \/>\non their children\u2019s chests so they might breathe. <\/p>\n<p>The room still has the faint scent of incense,<br \/>\n&amp; in what light shines through a window<br \/>\nthe size of a cinder block, dust is a galaxy<br \/>\nof dead skin you brush aside with your palm.<br \/>\nBefore you\u2019re done, a voice calls from the stairs: <\/p>\n<p><em>Come up for air, son. Come see the strange lights in the sky.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\"><\/p>\n<h6>Jeremy Michael Clark<\/h6>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>_______All signs point toward the heart of the woods. Enter &amp; you\u2019ll come across a makeshift fort of branches, blankets. Lost to the weeds: muddied magazines, baseball cards, a juicebox half-buried in the dirt. Somewhere in the woods, a creek waits for rain. Somewhere, a boy says, is a good place to go. From afar [&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-3l1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835"}],"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=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}