I mount him<\/p>\n
from behind\u2014his moan<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
is fresh water<\/p>\n
crying from the spigot.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Yes, I\u2019ve pushed the Good<\/p>\n
Book closed after the revelatory<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
sentence\u2014hydrostatic, divine wisdom<\/p>\n
bowing my heart. Have you?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You feel like you\u2019re dying,<\/p>\n
until you realize: no,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
you\u2019re just seeing<\/p>\n
yourself for the first time. New<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
knowledge will do that. Pleasure<\/p>\n
is information. My heart swells<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
like his penis as I pound<\/p>\n
him into the mattress.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If he had wings, they\u2019d be covered<\/p>\n
with eyes, and they\u2019d all be rolling back.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
No, I\u2019m not inside him.<\/p>\n
Considering my lack, I press<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
my face into his feathers.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve opened something I cannot close.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Is this okay?<\/em><\/p>\n I ask in a whisper,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and, you are so good<\/em>,<\/p>\n pushing his head into the pillow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All the eyes, seeing me, seeing me:<\/p>\n I perform myself a man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He moans like a revelation. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I mount him from behind\u2014his moan is fresh water crying from the spigot. Yes, I\u2019ve pushed the Good Book closed after the revelatory sentence\u2014hydrostatic, divine wisdom bowing my heart. Have you? You feel like you\u2019re dying, until you realize: no, you\u2019re just seeing yourself for the first time. New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"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":[86],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-579","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663"}],"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\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19665,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19663\/revisions\/19665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA revelation\u2019s promise is always a new name.<\/p>\nDaniella\u00a0Toosie-Watson<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"