{"id":12859,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2016-07-28T09:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:49:42","slug":"marriage-ten-years-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12859","title":{"rendered":"Marriage, Ten Years In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I wonder_____________<\/span>what<\/p>\n

the neighbors________<\/span>wonder\u2014<\/p>\n

do they spin \u201cAt Last\u201d on repeat until they fall<\/p>\n

asleep? Have husband and wife<\/p>\n

_______________________________<\/span>agreed\u2014or one agrees<\/p>\n

and one gives in\u2014to a trial separation? So delirious\u2014she<\/p>\n

sleeps inside the dog and he sleeps on the porch\u2014<\/p>\n

I would like my jealousy to become our secret.<\/em><\/p>\n

What adjustments. The air conditioning, the dog\u2014again\u2014who<\/p>\n

ate the bagels?______________<\/span>Please go upstairs. Please<\/p>\n

go up the stairs\u2014__________________<\/span>Upstairs.<\/p>\n

The villain the ghost the bad guy hides there<\/p>\n

the suspicious noise the baseball bat under<\/p>\n

your bed___________<\/span>but what do you hope<\/p>\n

to do with it the….______________<\/span>Honey, I heard<\/p>\n

something downstairs. Go see what it is<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n

This time you really aren\u2019t_____________<\/span>alone\u2014<\/p>\n

And sometimes you then wake in a lakehouse\u2014<\/p>\n

buzz of locusts, not traffic, saw blades saw<\/p>\n

blades.___________________<\/span>Vertical call of the loon,<\/p>\n

the affect of mourning doves. We all lose<\/p>\n

sometime. Burrow\u2014burrow here<\/p>\n

_______________________________<\/span>and dwell.<\/p>\n

This is the tin can. This is the root. How<\/p>\n

you heard the glass shatter, the crowbar crack<\/p>\n

the deadbolt________________<\/span>the___<\/span>the__________<\/span>the had it<\/p>\n

coming<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n

____________<\/span>Thighs as a reward but for their fire.<\/p>\n

Liberation is less rout than a meandering coming<\/p>\n

to. A tensile spinning out of. Flamed with lush<\/p>\n

horror like when a lover pats your head. It\u2019s<\/p>\n

not ever not over\u2014<\/p>\n

____________________<\/span>Tomorrow and another<\/p>\n

morning. The neighbors roll the trash bin to the curb,<\/p>\n

wave, retreat back into their garage\u2014holiness<\/p>\n

of routine, of waking early to<\/p>\n

_______________________________<\/span>unlearn<\/p>\n

love and learn it\u2014and her\u2014again.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Gary McDowell<\/h6>\n

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Sometimes I wonder_____________what the neighbors________wonder\u2014 do they spin \u201cAt Last\u201d on repeat until they fall asleep? Have husband and wife _______________________________agreed\u2014or one agrees and one gives in\u2014to a trial separation? So delirious\u2014she sleeps inside the dog and he sleeps on the porch\u2014 I would like my jealousy to become our secret. What adjustments. The air […]<\/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-3lp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859"}],"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=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}