{"id":18169,"date":"2022-12-04T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:40:04","slug":"earache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18169","title":{"rendered":"Earache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curls me in the lap of a mother half my size. It will be the last earache I remember having: the last time she holds me: some Spring night not close to Summer, which dawns to shrink the flowers, snip the pistils at my eardrum. Past crying, my mother hears the crickets droning through the screen door. Her grip on me, loosening. She bids me listen, bids me peace so she may know it; as the ache ebbs &amp; flows, she ebbs &amp; flows, rocks me &amp; is rocked. Outside, beetles hide under pine needles from heavy nosedives of owls &amp; the mice, seeking shelter at our shed, meet God\u2019s proudest black snake. The crickets\u2019 song flattened but alive. I can\u2019t put my ear to a pillow without crying.<\/p>\n<p>Soon: Sprouting Grass Moon<br \/>\nsalmon learn to slink upstream<br \/>\nthe world sleeping, pink<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18159\">Jami Padgett<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curls me in the lap of a mother half my size. It will be the last earache I remember having: the last time she holds me: some Spring night not close to Summer, which dawns to shrink the flowers, snip the pistils at my eardrum. Past crying, my mother hears the crickets droning through the [&hellip;]<\/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":[75],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-earache","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169"}],"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=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18280,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}