{"id":3184,"date":"2010-12-01T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:37:21","slug":"late-afternoon-with-chagall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3184","title":{"rendered":"Late Afternoon with Chagall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their dotted trails\u2014the bee, the dragonfly\u2014loop words<br \/>\nwith the lush buzz of pollen sprigs;<br \/>\na golden cursive across the air<br \/>\nspelling<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span>fire<\/em> and <em>chrysanthemum<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>or perhaps<br \/>\nthey carry,<br \/>\none upon each wing,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">____________<\/span>clementine<\/em> and <em>living<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span>echo<\/em> and <em>lodestone<\/em>\u2014<br \/>\nwords humming new dichotomies with every hover and flap\u2014<\/p>\n<p>the sin of spring is this: <em>evanescence<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>caught in the fervor of its newness\u2014<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>snapped like the strings of a violin,<br \/>\nan amplitude diminished by bolder life:<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>the green leaves which overtake the flowers too soon,<\/p>\n<p>leaves which unfurl<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>into women, brides, flying out over the marketplace,<br \/>\nover baskets of berries, beet bundles, green stalks of leeks\u2014<br \/>\nthese women point from the sky, naming the merchants below,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>the mortals who ask,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em>What rift is it that joins us? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The answer is in<br \/>\n<em>etching <\/em>and in <em>prayer<\/em>,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>in <em>mirth<\/em> and <em>collarbone<\/em>\u2014<br \/>\nin the simplicity<br \/>\nof cello turned goat, turned rooster, turned uncle on a roof<br \/>\nall traveling beneath the dream of a rich, yolk-colored sun.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em>What threshold brings us to this truth?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The answer is a town<br \/>\ndisobeying gravity\u2014cattle and figures of scripture,<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em>our daily bread,<br \/>\nwalking with invisible wings:<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">______<\/span><\/em><em>chrysanthemum<\/em> and <em>fire<\/em>,<br \/>\na golden cursive across the air.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2540\">Michelle Pe\u00f1aloza<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their dotted trails\u2014the bee, the dragonfly\u2014loop words with the lush buzz of pollen sprigs; a golden cursive across the air spelling ______fire and chrysanthemum\u2014 or perhaps they carry, one upon each wing, ____________clementine and living, ______echo and lodestone\u2014 words humming new dichotomies with every hover and flap\u2014 the sin of spring is this: evanescence ____________caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":[3],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-Pm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}