{"id":14751,"date":"2018-08-01T00:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T05:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14751"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:16:33","slug":"at-the-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14751","title":{"rendered":"At the North Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A poem by Dostena Anguelova translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I go back to the time<br \/>\nwhen we made love<br \/>\nto tell you everything.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t understand the final<br \/>\ncoldness<br \/>\nI don\u2019t understand<br \/>\nthe signs of distress\u2014<br \/>\nbirds hanging in the net<br \/>\nof my fiendish appetite.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t understand<br \/>\nmy desire<br \/>\ncatching fire from your spite,<br \/>\nor your fear<br \/>\nsuddenly lit up like a benediction.<br \/>\nBut I remember<br \/>\nthe gleam of the eye<br \/>\nthat saw you unclothed,<br \/>\nthe first innocence.<br \/>\nI was your prisoner<br \/>\nand now here I am free,<br \/>\nreturning in our wrinkled sheets,<br \/>\nresolved to hammer in a flag<br \/>\nlike an explorer on the North Pole:<br \/>\nThe furthest reaches of humankind!<br \/>\nAnd then the signs are erased<br \/>\nlike the crossword puzzle<br \/>\nof our footprints<br \/>\nin the snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14720\">Dostena Anguelova &amp; Holly Karapetkova<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Dostena Anguelova translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova. I go back to the time when we made love to tell you everything. I don\u2019t understand the final coldness I don\u2019t understand the signs of distress\u2014 birds hanging in the net of my fiendish appetite. I don\u2019t understand my desire catching fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1704,"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":[57],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3PV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751"}],"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\/1704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14752,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14751\/revisions\/14752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}