{"id":16524,"date":"2020-11-18T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=16524"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:32:09","slug":"mississippi-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16524","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a mile out you can paint it any color you want, low sun<br \/>\non the razed fields, rain ripping through the gutters.<br \/>\nyou can flush the heart with begging, drive out<br \/>\nthe built-up clutter of sit coms and coca-cola, remake<br \/>\nyourself into one long note from a bluesy sax.<br \/>\ni found a gumball machine with a wizard inside.<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll give you two lies for a quarter, fed out on a paper slip:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff<\/span>the world is ugly but fixable.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">fffffffff<\/span>it&#8217;s cold where i&#8217;ve been. i&#8217;ve spread my coat<br \/>\nover my bed at night, sleeves brushing my mouth,<br \/>\nvelvet-soft and gentle. i&#8217;ve stayed late each week<br \/>\nin the church hall to sit in the true and perfect silence,<br \/>\na hundred folding chairs still open in their rows.<br \/>\nbanks of black windows. outside, headlights.<br \/>\ntrees and trees, blown stars, raw wind, the belly<br \/>\nof the world turned up in supplication. two lies for a quarter:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff<\/span>this holy dirt loves me and wants me near.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">fffffffffff<\/span>i&#8217;ve come home to break my heart on familiar streets,<br \/>\nand my pockets have coins to spare.<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve left honesty beneath the coat on the bed,<br \/>\nin folding chairs and nights when the scorpion stretched out<br \/>\nover the house of laughter and bad beginnings,<br \/>\ncity below like a flung net. i&#8217;m here again,<br \/>\nand i&#8217;ve packed light: just myself and my paring knife,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff<\/span>honed and sharp, leaping for work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16501\">Maria Zoccola<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a mile out you can paint it any color you want, low sun on the razed fields, rain ripping through the gutters. you can flush the heart with begging, drive out the built-up clutter of sit coms and coca-cola, remake yourself into one long note from a bluesy sax. i found a gumball machine with [&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":[66],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4iw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524"}],"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=16524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}