{"id":15803,"date":"2019-12-01T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15803"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:31:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T07:31:01","slug":"after-watchmen-chapter-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15803","title":{"rendered":"After Watchmen Chapter IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2 minutes he will unlock the front door
\n<\/span>and walk 28 steps to the bedroom. 12 minutes ago
\n<\/span>I ask him to come home. I twist my ring
\n<\/span>a half-turn around my finger. 4 years ago
\n<\/span>I am 25 years old, it\u2019s August and we\u2019re playing poker.
\n<\/span>There is a ring in the center of the table and I am dealt
\n<\/span>a queen of spades and a queen of hearts.
\n<\/span>In 2 minutes I will hear his key turn inside the lock.
\n<\/span>4 years ago I win the hand. 2 minutes from now
\n<\/span>he\u2019ll walk 28 steps to the bedroom.
\n<\/span>I twist my ring a quarter-turn around my knuckle.
\n<\/span>10 minutes from now the words will exit my mouth.
\n<\/span>Words that execute my old self. In 68 days
\n<\/span>I\u2019m standing on a frozen lake. It is my 30<\/span>th<\/span> birthday.
\n<\/span>10 minutes from now I will tell my husband.
\n<\/span>It will feel like a spell being lifted.
\n<\/span>I try to see through the ice, the lake moans
\n<\/span>and birds scatter like buckshot. 1 month from now
\n<\/span>he thinks he hears me getting out of bed,
\n<\/span>the possibility exists that we are still together.
\n<\/span>10 minutes from now his wife will exist, yet not exist.
\n<\/span>I will not know if I am inside or outside my body.
\n<\/span>8 months from now he\u2019ll hike 800 miles.
\n<\/span>18 months from now I\u2019ll be living with my wife.
\n<\/span>In 2 minutes he\u2019ll walk 28 steps to the bedroom.
\n<\/span>4 years ago I shuffled a deck of cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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