{"id":16220,"date":"2020-08-01T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=16220"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:51:10","slug":"here-is-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16220","title":{"rendered":"here is the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>\u201cOur Prophet fills our lungs with water so they may better love the air.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>\u2013 BioShock Infinite<\/em><\/p>\n<p>steeped in sweet sweat.<br \/>\nswept in slick sermon.<\/p>\n<p>the song of service<br \/>\nrecorded in the hymn book.<br \/>\nsee the recently asleep child<\/p>\n<p>stack the books<br \/>\ninto a playhouse?<br \/>\na sanctuary within<\/p>\n<p>a sanctuary while we prayed<br \/>\nfor kingdom come,<br \/>\nforgetting how kings<\/p>\n<p>whipped our bones clean.<br \/>\nto what music do we<br \/>\nnow cling? our own<\/p>\n<p>songs or the ones<br \/>\nwe learned when too young<br \/>\nto know what we didn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>know? when i stepped from<br \/>\nthe church, the sky<br \/>\nwas cloudy. i had<\/p>\n<p>to reconstruct the stars<br \/>\nfrom memory. but<br \/>\ni remembered the position<\/p>\n<p>of not a single one,<br \/>\nnot even the bright<br \/>\nnorth, neither either<\/p>\n<p>gourd\u2019s reaching handle.<br \/>\nso i sat in my car<br \/>\nand went nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>turned on the a\/c to<br \/>\nfeel the presence<br \/>\nof the chilled fake wind.<\/p>\n<p>sweat and skin cooling.<br \/>\nwith my phone dead,<br \/>\nno gps. we\u2019ve seen<\/p>\n<p>the maps so many times<br \/>\nwe forget men made them.<br \/>\nonce i touched a cross<\/p>\n<p>and felt something i called<br \/>\ngod, though before christ<br \/>\na cross was just<\/p>\n<p>a torture apparatus. in<br \/>\na hunger i swore was holy,<br \/>\ni sucked a dead fig, but<\/p>\n<p>having never had a fig<br \/>\ni swore it was good<br \/>\nand sweet, prayed a thanks,<\/p>\n<p>had another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16357\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">MARLIN M. JENKINS<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Prophet fills our lungs with water so they may better love the air.\u201d \u2013 BioShock Infinite steeped in sweet sweat. swept in slick sermon. the song of service recorded in the hymn book. see the recently asleep child stack the books into a playhouse? a sanctuary within a sanctuary while we prayed for kingdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2211,"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":[65],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4dC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220"}],"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\/2211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16438,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions\/16438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}