{"id":5013,"date":"2011-12-02T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:11:18","slug":"mandolin-in-white-wood-inlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5013","title":{"rendered":"Mandolin in White Wood, Inlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the double barrel breached<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>amid the honeysuckle,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>his trigger finger cracks<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>another beer. The fields,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>beyond our hidey-hole<br \/>\nin the woodbine, sink, this dawn,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>in biting light.\u00a0 Mute,<br \/>\nmostly, my father speaks\u2014<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>position your arms to waltz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>the gun is the girl and lay<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\"> <\/span>your cheek to her\u2014<\/em> by God,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>I listen.\u00a0 His fiddle clenched<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>in the bend of his neck creaks<br \/>\nlike a stair-step, the can<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>between his thighs rucks<\/p>\n<p>as he scuffs the horsehair<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>across a rosin cake.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>At the ready, he holds<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>his fiddle like I do the gun.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>The strings tug from the gut<br \/>\nan organ-bellowed honk<\/p>\n<p>and snow geese, they come,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>yoked to it.\u00a0 <em>Lead the sight<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span><\/em> <em>ahead the goose.\u00a0 At the up-<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>beat of its wings, shoot.<\/em><br \/>\nHis wrist flicks and shuffles<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>the call again and then<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>my flash of birdshot routs<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>the gaggle overhead<br \/>\nof two\u2014mother-of-pearl<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">___<\/span>and lung blood in the black<br \/>\nveneer of a cotton field,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff\">_____<\/span>inlaid herringboned.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4752\">Joshua Brown<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the double barrel breached _____amid the honeysuckle, ___his trigger finger cracks ___another beer. The fields, _____beyond our hidey-hole in the woodbine, sink, this dawn, _____in biting light.\u00a0 Mute, mostly, my father speaks\u2014 ___position your arms to waltz ___the gun is the girl and lay your cheek to her\u2014 by God, _____I listen.\u00a0 His fiddle [&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-1iR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013"}],"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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10286,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}