{"id":16529,"date":"2020-11-18T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2020-11-30T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T04:31:53","slug":"smashing-big-rocks-into-smaller-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16529","title":{"rendered":"SMASHING BIG ROCKS INTO SMALLER ROCKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All grand arc, the geologic upswing\u2014<br \/>\ntime, muscle, a pit of snakes crumpled in the dirt.<\/p>\n<p>An accelerated erosion. How much you ask<br \/>\nof the body in its breaking. smaller, many.<\/p>\n<p>A tax you\u2019ll pay weeks from now, driving southbound<br \/>\non interstate 89, hand a stiffened claw clenching steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Switched-back, cribbed-in, water-barred,<br \/>\nlive willows staked to grow the bank in place.<\/p>\n<p>The hills are moving closer. The body is a tool\u2014<br \/>\nhacksaw, c-clamp, mattock tamping the soft earth down.<\/p>\n<p>Revetment: the awful slope, a cattle fence strung mid-air<br \/>\nlike telephone wire, earth just gone, earth sloughed off.<\/p>\n<p>The body. The tool. A twisted knot. Cliff-edge, barbed wire,<br \/>\nfence post dangling like a splintered bone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16501\">Carolyn Orosz<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All grand arc, the geologic upswing\u2014 time, muscle, a pit of snakes crumpled in the dirt. An accelerated erosion. How much you ask of the body in its breaking. smaller, many. A tax you\u2019ll pay weeks from now, driving southbound on interstate 89, hand a stiffened claw clenching steering wheel. Switched-back, cribbed-in, water-barred, live willows [&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-4iB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529"}],"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=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16531,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}