{"id":19503,"date":"2025-04-10T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:03:30","slug":"bone-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/19503","title":{"rendered":"BONE CONFESSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2014Pompeii 79 AD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ash-spined sun descends its bronze<br \/>\ncolumn, garden\u2019s cloud a ghost of breath.<br \/>\nIf the ground did not move us, would we still fall<br \/>\ninto rhythm? Could I call it weather related\u2014<br \/>\nmy teeth aching at the root? When you left,<br \/>\nI bedded down the letters, traced your vowels<br \/>\nwith wine, tongued gulf pearls you gifted<br \/>\nmy wrist. At noon: the pumice, Vesuvius<\/p>\n<p>spits red plurality, the windows sealed<br \/>\nwith cloth. <em>Lava<\/em> another word for <em>torrent<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em>door<\/em> another name for <em>warning<\/em>.<br \/>\nBeloved, how I softened like blood<br \/>\nto a bruise. How I loved you<br \/>\nthe way magma turns the soil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/19361\">Emma Erlbacher<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Pompeii 79 AD The ash-spined sun descends its bronze column, garden\u2019s cloud a ghost of breath. If the ground did not move us, would we still fall into rhythm? Could I call it weather related\u2014 my teeth aching at the root? When you left, I bedded down the letters, traced your vowels with wine, tongued [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-54z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503"}],"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=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19507,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}