Sick with Alzheimer\u2019s, hallucinating,<\/p>\n
the father says, the boy has fallen.<\/p>\n
The daughter walks the father to the tree,<\/p>\n
points her eyes to the ground where the boy<\/p>\n
is supposed to be, assures the father<\/p>\n
the grass is empty. The father says, the grass<\/p>\n
is empty. The father says, who are you.<\/p>\n
The daughter stands close to the father<\/p>\n
and says, it\u2019s me. The father looks through<\/p>\n
the daughter, believing her face is another<\/p>\n
language. The father says the irises are<\/p>\n
blooming nicely this year. The daughter,<\/p>\n
relieved by this shard of lucidity, says<\/p>\n
the irises survived the late frost. The father<\/p>\n
says the irises are the boy\u2019s clothes<\/p>\n
emptied from the thaw. The daughter says,<\/p>\n
remember me. The father says, remember<\/p>\n
you\u2019re not who you think you are.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sick with Alzheimer\u2019s, hallucinating, the father says, the boy has fallen. The daughter walks the father to the tree, points her eyes to the ground where the boy is supposed to be, assures the father the grass is empty. The father says, the grass is empty. The father says, who are you. The daughter stands […]<\/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":[70],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-vision","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299"}],"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=17299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17301,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions\/17301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}