Fag spelled out sounds like effigy.<\/p>\n
The poppet full of my stubble.<\/p>\n
A slur sewn inside me<\/p>\n
Rhyming. An exponential function<\/p>\n
Is a never-ending climax. Child me<\/p>\n
Cutting caltrops from tin cans:<\/p>\n
Grandma\u2019s gentle consequence<\/p>\n
Of unboxing the war stories.<\/p>\n
None of my adolescent weapons saved me<\/p>\n
From the inventions of my failures:<\/p>\n
The poem that I refuse to write. The library<\/p>\n
I make in its absence. The boats borne back<\/p>\n
To the ocean. A destination far from myself\u2013<\/p>\n
I stood on that dock. I jumped and did not fall.<\/p>\n
I milled the memory in search of a lesson.<\/p>\n
All I learned was that I lived. With myself,<\/p>\n
I told myself something else. Something<\/p>\n
Promising. A tale where all the hurt<\/p>\n
Meant something more. It didn\u2019t. I did.<\/p>\n
Fag spelled out sounds like effigy. The poppet full of my stubble. A slur sewn inside me Rhyming. An exponential function Is a never-ending climax. Child me Cutting caltrops from tin cans: Grandma\u2019s gentle consequence Of unboxing the war stories. None of my adolescent weapons saved me From the inventions of my failures: The poem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"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":[82,1],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-power","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278"}],"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\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19279,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions\/19279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}