{"id":14301,"date":"2018-03-26T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14301"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:34:10","slug":"jentr%c9%99f%c9%99%cb%88kash%c9%99n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14301","title":{"rendered":",jentr\u0259f\u0259\u02c8k\u0101SH(\u0259)n"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/span><\/p>\n

This house isn\u2019t a home, isn\u2019t even a house anymore.
\nA subdivision in the hills, gone, a ghost of its own attic
\nits green algae siding and white foam columns now only existing
\non Instagram and in the crawl space of the mind.
\nThe rent was so cheap that deer mice could afford to live with us:
\ntwo blacks, one queer, two women on disability, one on that Jesus juice\u2014
\nmore than the rope swing hanging from the big maple, the garden with turmeric root
\nor the barred owl my lover and I spied while smoking on the roof_________<\/span>I remember
\nbeing sickened by the droppings in the bathroom, the bite marks in the cupboard,
\nour collective wishing them dead, poisoning them, stepping on their skeletons
\nshuddering at the sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span><\/p>\n

black folk | no stranger to | \u02ccjentr\u0259f\u0259\u02c8k\u0101SH(\u0259)n
\nno stranger to | strangers | conquistadores | christophers
\nimperialism scaled down | made intimate | the community
\nunmade | one by one | the body politic | twisted beyond all recognition
\nkafkaesque | with what was once seen as human becoming vermin
\na roach | an intrusion | brown people | familiar with the fines | the signs
\nof an european invasion | the real estate agent | the state\u2019s agenda
\nof furthering civilization | civil debate | the bait | the humane thing
\nto do would be to capture the mouse and place it in a field somewhere
\nin the suburbs | the____<\/span>people will see the benefits | a reduction in crime
\nan increase in property values and lemonade stands | when the houses show wear
\nthey are improved | of course | that is what happens when life gives you lime.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/span><\/p>\n

The house where I lost my virginity___________________<\/span>(done) ghosted on the neighborhood
\n(done) left a hole in the ground_______________________<\/span>where intangible value once stood
\nlike my ex, tears welling in her eyes.___________________<\/span>She tells me that she\u2019s (done)
\nsold all her stock___________<\/span>even though we shook_____<\/span>on that partnership____<\/span>in that room
\nwithout a closet____________<\/span><\/span>that house with no central air_____<\/span><\/span>a wrinkle in time
\na capsule that looked______<\/span>__<\/span>the same as it did in 74\u2019__________<\/span>the landlord (done) sold it
\nfor 2X____________________<\/span>the place I went after____________<\/span><\/span>my moms called and said that
\ngrandma had died.__________<\/span>Like my pops_________________<\/span>__<\/span><\/span>and his pops before him
\nI stood on the front porch__________________________________<\/span><\/span>and watered the grass.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bryan Byrdlong<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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