{"id":13619,"date":"2017-04-05T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2017-04-05T00:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:32:19","slug":"narcissus-goes-to-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13619","title":{"rendered":"narcissus (goes to the market)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the wood<br \/>\nthe trees say <em>hey baby<\/em>,<br \/>\nso i\u2019ve accepted my body<br \/>\ncan\u2019t be both safe &amp; beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>the trees are disheveled<br \/>\nslack-jawed men, backs<br \/>\non a light posts\u2019 lean,<br \/>\ntheir crotches branching<br \/>\ntoward my night-soaked legs.<\/p>\n<p>before i was followed<br \/>\naround markets now<br \/>\ni\u2019m followed out of them.<\/p>\n<p>in the wood<br \/>\ni want my body<br \/>\nto hear itself<br \/>\nbetween the trees.<\/p>\n<p>the trees are suspicious eyes<br \/>\n&amp; giggles of Black girls<br \/>\ntalking fast &amp; light<br \/>\non the corner, their smiles<br \/>\nlike the sky glinting<br \/>\nthrough an overhang.<\/p>\n<p>somewhere<br \/>\nin the wood<br \/>\nmy body is<br \/>\nthe buzzing &amp; hum<br \/>\nof the trees.<\/p>\n<p>the trees are the words<br \/>\nRELAX graffiti\u2019d in<br \/>\nwhite spatter paint<br \/>\n&amp; ungovernable vines.<br \/>\nthe sun illuminates the message<br \/>\nlike a distress call.<\/p>\n<p>the rain cannot wash way roots,<br \/>\nas both come from the earth.<\/p>\n<p>the wind barreling<br \/>\nin the wood<br \/>\nof no streetlights<br \/>\nteaches my body to lament.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13494\">jayy dodd<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the wood the trees say hey baby, so i\u2019ve accepted my body can\u2019t be both safe &amp; beautiful. the trees are disheveled slack-jawed men, backs on a light posts\u2019 lean, their crotches branching toward my night-soaked legs. before i was followed around markets now i\u2019m followed out of them. in the wood i want [&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":[52],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3xF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619"}],"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=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13719,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}