with my mother. In a photograph,
\nshe places one hand on my shoulder,
\nanother on the small
\nof my back, keeping me
\nstill on the horse\u2019s saddle. I can\u2019t be
\nolder than three, which means I\u2019m too young
\nfor memory, but who needs memory
\nwhen you have a mother. I don\u2019t
\nalways remember that I have a mother
\nin another country, that in her language
\nthe words for mother and horse sound the same.<\/p>\n
Years after the picture, we quit Chinese class <\/p>\n <\/p>\n with my mother. In a photograph, she places one hand on my shoulder, another on the small of my back, keeping me still on the horse\u2019s saddle. I can\u2019t be older than three, which means I\u2019m too young for memory, but who needs memory when you have a mother. I don\u2019t always remember that I […]<\/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":[67],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4m9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749"}],"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=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nduring the second week because we keep forgetting
\nthat the word ma<\/em> can name the way every birth begins
\nwith an animal. I say we and mean me
\nand my mother. The horse
\nI call my mother and the mother
\nI mispronounce into a horse I don\u2019t remember
\nriding. But this story begins with my mother
\nand I. No, this is a story
\nabout myself.<\/p>\nERIN JIN MEI O’MALLEY\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"