{"id":17594,"date":"2022-04-01T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:04:55","slug":"icing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17594","title":{"rendered":"Icing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing but the word \u201cyes\u201d<br \/>\nfor the rest of the day. A dog-eared page<br \/>\nin a book we no longer own.<br \/>\nThe urge to inscribe sugar<br \/>\nforever into tongue. Licking<br \/>\na metaphorical heart. The wands<br \/>\nthat beat cream\u2014paddle boating<br \/>\nin the thickest pond. We sit<br \/>\nand convince the sun to melt.<br \/>\nSighing for three hours straight.<br \/>\nThere has never been<br \/>\nan end in sight.<br \/>\nWe take handfuls of biology<br \/>\nand toss them at neighbor\u2019s windows.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have flippers but maybe<br \/>\nwe can borrow my brother\u2019s.<br \/>\nMy snorkel is ready.<br \/>\nI need to ask the whales<br \/>\nhow they celebrate eternity.<br \/>\nWhere a spoon both is and isn\u2019t enough.<br \/>\nFeeding you the church bells.<br \/>\nUsing a viola as a nest.<br \/>\nDo you remember when we were birds?<br \/>\nHow flight came as easy<br \/>\nas licking our lips?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4A7\">Robin Gow<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing but the word \u201cyes\u201d for the rest of the day. A dog-eared page in a book we no longer own. The urge to inscribe sugar forever into tongue. Licking a metaphorical heart. The wands that beat cream\u2014paddle boating in the thickest pond. We sit and convince the sun to melt. Sighing for three hours [&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":[71],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-icing","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594"}],"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=17594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17626,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions\/17626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}