{"id":15811,"date":"2019-12-01T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T07:31:27","slug":"letter-with-missing-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15811","title":{"rendered":"Letter with Missing Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0warning sirens<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wail again at the power plant<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I can no longer see<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the stars. I have waited too long<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to write<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and, for that, I am sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ivy clings to the side<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the house<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the roof<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and I don\u2019t know how to<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make it stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The light in the bathroom<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been out for weeks and it\u2019s<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">too high for me<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to touch<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">even when I jump. Do you<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">remember<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 string lights<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when we walked late that night<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">under redwoods, talking<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of danger<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">testing small bombs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the language between us,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how easily our words split<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a house<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a lip,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the hour gone cold, how beautiful<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you were,<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">moonlight<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sharpening inside your mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am sorry<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I used to think<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of my body<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as the only thing I could give,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a garden of orange flowers.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let them wait.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They hunger in the shade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15843\">L.A. JOHNSON<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0warning sirens wail again at the power plant and I can no longer see the stars. I have waited too long to write \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and, for that, I am sorry. 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