{"id":13309,"date":"2016-12-15T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:05:28","slug":"the-most-dangerous-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13309","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>after Richard Siken <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I crack the sliding glass door wide enough for an animal, immortal<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________________________________________<\/span>to ascend a fleeced deck<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>in dying dark. Motion lights keep time with the Bic\u2019s rusted flint,<br \/>\n&amp; suddenly the deer stilled against snowcapped pines&#8211;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________<\/span>scavenging what? A few brambles, twigs? Buried buds of ash?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_______<\/span>Hand-me-down cowpeas dappling bird scat? A cul-de-sac\u2019s not<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____________________<\/span>exactly trading up. Of course, lilac-scented spring.<br \/>\nSure, summer dogwoods. But often the rabid hound off its tie-out.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">________________________________________________<\/span>Funny thing about<br \/>\nforced migration, always the natives angling your demise. I slide a roach<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span>from black lips for the neighborhood<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">__________________________________<\/span>watch, bow cocked, above his house<br \/>\nin the deer blind. At this height, I\u2019m retreating<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______________<\/span>ice pond in a patio table.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________________________________<\/span>Spotted face in an antiquated fable.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13165\">Marcus Wicker<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Richard Siken I crack the sliding glass door wide enough for an animal, immortal ________________________________________to ascend a fleeced deck _______in dying dark. Motion lights keep time with the Bic\u2019s rusted flint, &amp; suddenly the deer stilled against snowcapped pines&#8211; ______________scavenging what? A few brambles, twigs? Buried buds of ash? _______Hand-me-down cowpeas dappling bird scat? [&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":[50],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3sF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309"}],"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=13309"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13535,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}