{"id":16991,"date":"2021-08-01T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:45:39","slug":"decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/16991","title":{"rendered":"Decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to wake, today, more visible<br \/>\nthan not.\u00a0 A shape in blue<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_________________________<\/span>dawn assembling,<br \/>\ndispersing in equal measure to the heat<br \/>\nthe street allows<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>the air.\u00a0 Mug of coffee, your hand.<br \/>\nThat time between seasons: a jacket and shorts.<br \/>\nThat time you called<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>a dead man\u2019s phone\u2014a moment<br \/>\nalone with him before the tone<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____________________<\/span>which meant something<br \/>\nnew had begun.\u00a0 A silence<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">__________________________<\/span>that meant maybe<br \/>\nit hadn\u2019t.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019ve fallen behind, are falling,<br \/>\nand the leaves outside<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___________________<\/span>are <em>desperation.<\/em>\u00a0 And the wind<br \/>\nthat moves them.\u00a0 And the chance of rain.<br \/>\nSomewhere, though, you do have<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">__________________________<\/span>people, a small people<br \/>\nin a failed colony called<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">__________________<\/span>the body<\/em>, called <em>in loving<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>there is shame<\/em>.\u00a0 There is an easy distance between you<br \/>\nand the mouth<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>whose utterance, like a narrow light<br \/>\nthrough fog, gives you shape.\u00a0 But what you need<br \/>\nis a life<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span>inside this one, so you can leave and return<br \/>\nrefreshed, leave<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>and return still-warm from the other<br \/>\nbody that holds you.\u00a0 You want to go on waking,<br \/>\ntoday and any other, to a light,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____________<\/span>a people, real enough to turn from.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4ra\">D.S. Waldman<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to wake, today, more visible than not.\u00a0 A shape in blue _________________________dawn assembling, dispersing in equal measure to the heat the street allows _____________the air.\u00a0 Mug of coffee, your hand. That time between seasons: a jacket and shorts. That time you called _____________a dead man\u2019s phone\u2014a moment alone with him before the tone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"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":[69],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-decay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991"}],"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\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17098,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/17098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}