{"id":15261,"date":"2019-04-01T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T07:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:28:14","slug":"to-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15261","title":{"rendered":"To White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A poem by Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Edd\u00efne, translated from the French by Conor Bracken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>to white desert\u2014and your trigonocephalic snout ties<br \/>\ndelirium<br \/>\nto our sights which have never heard have maybe mesmerized<br \/>\nthe shudder of dead lilies and fevers\u2014o hoodlum<br \/>\nlimed with blood\u2014over your face I lay a yellow dawn<br \/>\nI daylight the crimes of spring<br \/>\nand the prowling towns gnawing on the wind<br \/>\nwhose white sabot violates each moon born by April<br \/>\nthe hand to hand measures the abyss where the green woman<br \/>\nhides\u2014and us?<br \/>\ndistraught and distressing\u2014while our vacant hands<br \/>\nexterminate the scant beaches in our chests<\/p>\n<p>the wet snout inoculates a delirium of swallows<br \/>\nand step by step our faces object to then delete<br \/>\nthe brassline of wasps and shudders\u2014out<br \/>\nof the pothole of spring<br \/>\nnails and plinths turn to face me<br \/>\nbut I observe it all from the closed fist of time<br \/>\nwhile her spangled breasts roll over my face\u2014<br \/>\na poem<br \/>\nwithout starting a new paragraph<br \/>\nwithout me barking<br \/>\nnuptial myriad of white ants<br \/>\nshattering the outrageous balances of rare eclipses<br \/>\nnew skin\u2014and sky our teeth<br \/>\nsinging out the ounces of ruined centuries<br \/>\nagainst the face of a flying dog\u2014hello vermin<br \/>\nvermillion virtue\u2014let us dance<br \/>\non the crests of stars poorly serenaded\u2014this is<br \/>\nmaking me a morning dove<br \/>\nmy mouth of kohl and white iron\u2014which<br \/>\nisn\u2019t to say\u2014the rising sap accepts the twists<br \/>\nI give the olive tree of your hips\u2014<br \/>\nwe are padlocked cages\u2014are smoke\u2014the place<br \/>\nwhere streams maroon their sacks of sun<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a9\u00a0Editions\u00a0Gallimard,\u00a0Paris,\u00a02009<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15227\">Mohammed Kha\u00efr Edd\u00efne &amp; Conor Bracken<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Mohammed Kha\u00efr-Edd\u00efne, translated from the French by Conor Bracken. to white desert\u2014and your trigonocephalic snout ties delirium to our sights which have never heard have maybe mesmerized the shudder of dead lilies and fevers\u2014o hoodlum limed with blood\u2014over your face I lay a yellow dawn I daylight the crimes of spring and [&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":[58],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3Y9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261"}],"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=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15368,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions\/15368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}