{"id":12897,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:02:34","slug":"bop-no-more-your-mirror-side-b-my-wifes-fugue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12897","title":{"rendered":"Bop: No More Your Mirror | Side B: My Wife\u2019s Fugue<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

for L<\/em>
\n <\/p>\n

the morning after your diagnosis we don\u2019t say endometrial
\ncancer<\/em>__<\/span>because we\u2019ve stayed locked in post-coital knots<\/p>\n

woozy with whispering names for the future__<\/span>we don\u2019t
\ndare blurt hysterectomy<\/em>__<\/span>and the blessing of never having<\/p>\n

to mouth uterine sarcoma<\/em> takes months to memorize
\n\u2014: instead__<\/span>we weigh the two blue notes held by your uterus<\/p>\n

_____<\/span>You\u2019ll never know, Dear . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

ode to the knifed and hallowed midst of your tomorrow
\node to the retired wright well of our son\u2019s slow arrival<\/p>\n

ode to the serosa drift that slickened the pelvic gathering
\node to the fertile-bombed bardo of probability<\/p>\n

ode to the sung and silent afterbirths of loss
\node to the ghosts now in our bed<\/p>\n

ode to your head raised from the wet riddle of hands
\node to the bloody almost of everything__<\/span>ode to the uterus<\/p>\n

_____<\/span>You\u2019ll never know, Dear . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

the morning after your surgery__<\/span>we don\u2019t say endometrial
\ncancer<\/em>__<\/span>because we\u2019ve stayed locked in post-coital knots<\/p>\n

woozy with whispering names for the future__<\/span>we don\u2019t
\ndare blurt hysterectomy<\/em>__<\/span>and the blessing of never having<\/p>\n

to mouth uterine sarcoma<\/em> takes years to memorize
\n\u2014: instead__<\/span>we weigh the two blue notes held by your uterus<\/p>\n

_____<\/span>You\u2019ll never know, Dear . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Geffrey Davis<\/h6>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Invented by Cave Canem elder Afaa Michael Weaver, the Bop is a form of poetic argument in three movements. Each stanza is followed by a refrain (usually from a song) and each attempts a different engagement with the tension central to the poem.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

for L   the morning after your diagnosis we don\u2019t say endometrial cancer__because we\u2019ve stayed locked in post-coital knots woozy with whispering names for the future__we don\u2019t dare blurt hysterectomy__and the blessing of never having to mouth uterine sarcoma takes months to memorize \u2014: instead__we weigh the two blue notes held by your uterus _____You\u2019ll […]<\/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-3m1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897"}],"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=12897"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13002,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12897\/revisions\/13002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}