something of the smell of her, summer ripe,
\nall honeyed & suckled, fallen from a cloud<\/p>\n
of girls clawing their mosquito bites
\nbehind the dugout bleachers, was she<\/p>\n
ever for a moment free of it, the body,
\nnot the body but the expectations of<\/p>\n
the body, for the body, did it bite
\nlike a beauty, the way he told her only<\/p>\n
girl, love, love, licked the spittle
\noff the self she hid beneath her clothes.<\/p>\n
you know the story, chip salt & bubble
\ngummed lip gloss, an afternoon of grass<\/p>\n
& beer & the cover of a cluster of trees,
\nif you never learned you have the option<\/p>\n
to say yes you also never learned you can
\nsay no, & anyway she knew she was supposed to<\/p>\n
like the cherry of it, glowing the end of his
\ncigarette in a hollow made of smoke, she never<\/p>\n
knew what happened in the black after
\nthe camera cut, just that the credits rolled<\/p>\n
& rolled, & nearby a pigeon beaked spilled fries
\n& cola cans, a trash of a sky spread its pinks<\/p>\n
around the sun, there were, she had only
\njust learned, so many ways to not make it home.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
something of the smell of her, summer ripe, all honeyed & suckled, fallen from a cloud of girls clawing their mosquito bites behind the dugout bleachers, was she ever for a moment free of it, the body, not the body but the expectations of the body, for the body, did it bite like a beauty, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"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":[74],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4FJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963"}],"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\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17964,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions\/17964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}