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and how sad it is that we have all come to \/ become war ourselves \/ clear as the well-spring tuff of light brewing in the \/ dark edge of things \/ every day for the rest of his life \/ father\u2019s shame grew and with it the crows that \/ gathered to eat them \/ how we descended a gallery of stairs just to get \/ in touch with that which ate his psyche from within \/\u00a0 just to keep carved the half ecstasy \/ knitted brows \/ lamp-lit gap-toothed smile \/ mown voice \/ nobody chameleons for every hue quite like a mother \/ or takes their grief on a walk quite like her \/ pray the elegy in her heart \/ quiver its arrows at the parakeets \/ respited in her head \/ soon nobody will know of this \/ they will say she stayed \/ unmoving and living \/ vicariously through the war \/ who will \/ x-ray that part \/ yes the part about her \/ zigzaging her way home to her children<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n and how sad it is that we have all come to \/ become war ourselves \/ clear as the well-spring tuff of light brewing in the \/ dark edge of things \/ every day for the rest of his life \/ father\u2019s shame grew and with it the crows that \/ gathered to eat […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-58P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767"}],"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=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19837,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Prosper Ifeanyi<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"