{"id":18747,"date":"2023-10-20T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:01:02","slug":"brainstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18747","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em>after Kabir<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flash-mobs of monarch butterflies<br \/>\nexuberant in his skull<br \/>\nterrify Descartes.<\/p>\n<p>No MRI will help him.<br \/>\nNor will scientific dissection of the chrysalis<br \/>\nreveal how<br \/>\ndissolving becomes aerial\u2014<br \/>\nblack-gold wings at altitude<br \/>\nfor oceanic migration.<\/p>\n<p>True understanding feeds<br \/>\nin the milkweed of imagination.<br \/>\nBlack-gold butterflies jamming with grey matter<br \/>\nmasterpiece<br \/>\nthe Hanging Gardens of Babylon.<br \/>\nNo net in sight, no glass box<br \/>\npins down your fluttering life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/18673\">DIA calhoun<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Kabir Flash-mobs of monarch butterflies exuberant in his skull terrify Descartes. No MRI will help him. Nor will scientific dissection of the chrysalis reveal how dissolving becomes aerial\u2014 black-gold wings at altitude for oceanic migration. True understanding feeds in the milkweed of imagination. Black-gold butterflies jamming with grey matter masterpiece the Hanging Gardens of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2292,"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":[79],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Sn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747"}],"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\/2292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18796,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions\/18796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}