{"id":17304,"date":"2021-12-01T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17304"},"modified":"2021-11-27T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:14:31","slug":"desire-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17304","title":{"rendered":"Desire Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeons roost above the air conditioner,<br \/>\nleaving pale gray feathers in the vestibule.<\/p>\n<p>My downstairs neighbors cook onions in butter.<br \/>\nEach night I dream the building catches fire.<\/p>\n<p>You tell me the word <em>remote<\/em> comes from botany.<br \/>\nThe exact distance between two flowers.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had known what I learned last week\u2014<br \/>\nThe loved one is lost at the moment of ravishing.<\/p>\n<p>Now I picture the end before the beginning. Our city<br \/>\nflooded, burning, sieged. Walk-up apartments crumbling.<\/p>\n<p>Berlant: <em>the subject must become a subject of unbecoming.<\/em><br \/>\nLorca: <em>the night becomes intimate. Like a small plaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my mind, a thin red string connects our windows.<br \/>\nEmma, when I heard you sing, I felt a sorrow I didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4uR\">Madeleine Cravens<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeons roost above the air conditioner, leaving pale gray feathers in the vestibule. My downstairs neighbors cook onions in butter. Each night I dream the building catches fire. You tell me the word remote comes from botany. The exact distance between two flowers. I wish I had known what I learned last week\u2014 The loved [&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":[70],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4v6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304"}],"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=17304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17305,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions\/17305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}