{"id":12937,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2016-07-31T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T03:47:06","slug":"putting-on-my-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12937","title":{"rendered":"Putting On My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words equivalent to <em>body<\/em><br \/>\nmean <em>dead<\/em>. I am not carcassed<\/p>\n<p>despite leaving my body<br \/>\nin a heap on the bed. <\/p>\n<p>A bird beats its beak<br \/>\nagainst wood\u2014learning <\/p>\n<p>a body is like that\u2014headlong<br \/>\nresolve into a hard thing<\/p>\n<p>made soft by rain &amp; repetition.<br \/>\nI kneel over my body <\/p>\n<p>&amp; dig &amp; dig &amp; dig<br \/>\nsearching for the inseam\u2019s zipper. <\/p>\n<p>Words equivalent to <em>buried<\/em><br \/>\nmean <em>body<\/em>: a breathing tomb<\/p>\n<p>I coax myself into<br \/>\nby clutching the spine &amp; parting it. <\/p>\n<p>I am kneeling over my breasts.<br \/>\nI am slipping on my face. <\/p>\n<p>Imagining a ring on each,<br \/>\nI slide my fingers on<\/p>\n<p>&amp; hook my knuckles<br \/>\nlike buttons into their satin loops.<\/p>\n<p>If I have allowed another<br \/>\nto undo me\u2014<\/p>\n<p>skin, the stockings<br \/>\npeeled down the legs<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it\u2019s to learn the body:<br \/>\neach hem &amp; rib, each <\/p>\n<p>vertebrae &amp; tooth<br \/>\nin the zipper I use to exit. <\/p>\n<p>There is pleasure in the question:<br \/>\nthis time will I want to<\/p>\n<p>kneel &amp; dig &amp; climb back in?<br \/>\nI\u2019ve yet to learn the difference<\/p>\n<p>between <em>bone<\/em> &amp; <em>snare<\/em>.<br \/>\nThere will come a time <\/p>\n<p>when I won\u2019t work free<br \/>\nthe noose in my hair. <\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/12804\">Katie Condon<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words equivalent to body mean dead. I am not carcassed despite leaving my body in a heap on the bed. A bird beats its beak against wood\u2014learning a body is like that\u2014headlong resolve into a hard thing made soft by rain &amp; repetition. I kneel over my body &amp; dig &amp; dig &amp; dig searching [&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-3mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937"}],"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=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}