{"id":18494,"date":"2023-04-20T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2023-04-20T02:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:49:45","slug":"wingless-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18494","title":{"rendered":"Wingless Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A poem by Humberto Ak&#8217;abal and translated from Spanish by Michael Bazzett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The nights are profoundly<br \/>\ndark,<br \/>\ndeep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and the darkness is charmed:<br \/>\nit draws sound from great distances,<br \/>\nit makes tiny noises grow.<\/p>\n<p>It has rained;<br \/>\nI\u2019m caked in mud.<\/p>\n<p>My memory<br \/>\nslips back, slips<br \/>\nback until I find my soul as a child<br \/>\n\u2013darkness<br \/>\nlends itself to that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a bird without wings,<br \/>\nand to keep from falling<br \/>\nI hold my breath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Ne\">Humberto Ak&#8217;abal<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Ne\">Michael Bazzett<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Humberto Ak&#8217;abal and translated from Spanish by Michael Bazzett The nights are profoundly dark, deep&#8230; \u2026and the darkness is charmed: it draws sound from great distances, it makes tiny noises grow. It has rained; I\u2019m caked in mud. My memory slips back, slips back until I find my soul as a child [&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":[76],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Oi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494"}],"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=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18496,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions\/18496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}