{"id":4854,"date":"2011-12-01T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:08:41","slug":"stray-dog-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4854","title":{"rendered":"Stray Dog Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run to my duskhouse,<\/p>\n<p>a stained dream of glass,<br \/>\nmouths opening<br \/>\nand closing. . .<\/p>\n<p>it smells of a city built in the rain,<br \/>\nof candle light in a goldenrod coffin.<\/p>\n<p>It is the silence in the back of an angel\u2019s attic.<\/p>\n<p>We weathered the sidereal,<br \/>\nthe tidal collapse of a thousand black-chrome<br \/>\nhaunts, insects moving<\/p>\n<p>in the shade, the lingering echo,<br \/>\none exorcised saint, diminishing.<\/p>\n<p>The duskhouse, the evaporation, another dead ocean.<\/p>\n<p>(A car sidesteps past,<br \/>\nthe color of glistening<br \/>\nfrostbite)<\/p>\n<p>Sepia-tone graffiti, hooks and chains<br \/>\nwaving from the back of a butcher\u2019s truck,<br \/>\nwaitresses in fluorescent stanzas with voices<br \/>\nlike a lost year\u2019s death throe rattling out\u2014<\/p>\n<p>our lord, whose art is instant,<\/p>\n<p>allow one more night.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4752\">Ryan Smith<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run to my duskhouse, a stained dream of glass, mouths opening and closing. . . it smells of a city built in the rain, of candle light in a goldenrod coffin. It is the silence in the back of an angel\u2019s attic. We weathered the sidereal, the tidal collapse of a thousand black-chrome haunts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1gi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854"}],"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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}