{"id":14079,"date":"2017-12-13T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14079"},"modified":"2017-12-15T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:16:57","slug":"juxtaposition-with-foliage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14079","title":{"rendered":"juxtaposition with foliage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there is a violent wind pouring down \/ closing in from some distant hill &amp; so \/ i find the garden at the edge of the block \/ run my fingers through its soil now \/ &amp; whisper a song as apology &amp; it is exhausting \/ how we all admire death in our own ways but i want the filter \/ that makes the reds seem green again \/ &amp; until then i walk the streets with my eyes closed \/ i sleep during the drive through the troubled vineyard \/ i have been tricked before &amp; this time \/ i want to leave no different than when i came in \/ the world is on fire &amp; you are eager for the photo \/ but what of the trees &amp; their labor? \/ how each leaf is draped in a new hue &amp; its edges \/ curled toward itself as if retreating \/ from the widening mouth of a small flame \/ &amp; listen, when i say i am not fond of autumn \/ i am thinking mostly of my homies &amp; how it seems \/ we only have one good season where the gold falls \/ just right around our necks \/ where we can leak across the park with our music loud \/ the type of niggas basking in safety &amp; admiring a good oak \/ peer outside your glass now &amp; tell me \/ of how it looks like you are dreaming \/ tell me about the children laughing &amp; drowning \/ in dead leaves \/ large golden dust falling from their hair \/ &amp; falling from their arms \/ &amp; i will tell you about the dream \/ where my homies line the street \/ only to dance &amp; bend \/ their bodies &amp; bend \/ their knees until they drop &amp; every night \/ when i close my eyes \/ they slip through my fingers \/ before hitting the ground &amp; i plead then \/ just as i plead to the leaves \/ <em>come back come back \/come<\/em>\u00a0<em>back<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14033\">BERNARD FERGUSON<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there is a violent wind pouring down \/ closing in from some distant hill &amp; so \/ i find the garden at the edge of the block \/ run my fingers through its soil now \/ &amp; whisper a song as apology &amp; it is exhausting \/ how we all admire death in our own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"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":[54],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3F5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079"}],"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\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14249,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14079\/revisions\/14249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}