Once you were as empty as a wind-filled sail,
\nbut you\u2019ll never fall asleep again. You are welcome.<\/p>\n
All summer, the sun is bolted to a red wheel. It breaks
\nthrough a cloud\u2019s belly, radiant, surgical, salt<\/p>\n
nets spreading on every man\u2019s shoulder. It is so good <\/em><\/p>\n to roots of my flesh, this weather to die for<\/em>. Come and go a body\u2019s red sky\u2014signal after signal plays off skin, as a morning. Soon we set a calendar of bacchanals. again starved. Again a sigil that starts in the marrow. on a roasted heart, velvet and severe. Again speech. And hail to the mother and father you never knew before us, but we sing down the family tree and cast are in a land of mythic heart, where want comes This is called a harbor. This is a safe <\/em><\/p>\n The past cannot touch you. O hail your harvest gaze.<\/em> for dark terrain, but who can swim with open arms? high through a hot wave of weeds. Come, we swear Once you were as empty as a wind-filled sail, but you\u2019ll never fall asleep again. You are welcome. All summer, the sun is bolted to a red wheel. It breaks through a cloud\u2019s belly, radiant, surgical, salt nets spreading on every man\u2019s shoulder. It is so good everybody lies down. Nobody rests. All say Hail […]<\/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":[10],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1jB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"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=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\neverybody lies down. Nobody rests. All say Hail<\/em><\/p>\n
\nin the bedrooms like water, the old sleeplessness of<\/p>\n
\nrounds the corner of a knee, all pupils lit from behind<\/p>\n
\nWe set a pace we cannot follow and we follow once<\/p>\n
\nAgain a nameless daughter, sampling the black stripe<\/p>\n
\nHail to every body, swollen as a sail, tied in knots<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nwe had. To you, no generation walked on water<\/p>\n
\noriginal seed. We are armada. We are cannon. You<\/p>\n
\nto pass as real. Believe it like a christ, a cross\u2014<\/p>\n
\nthat won\u2019t sink with your secret into a wet bed.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLove the great butcher kept us flesh as hell, diving<\/p>\n
\nIt is good to be unafraid of death<\/em>, we say, crawling<\/p>\n
\nyou will rise in fields again, ears raw, burst with grain.<\/p>\nLo Kwa Mei-en<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"