{"id":5348,"date":"2012-08-01T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2015-02-16T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T16:17:36","slug":"tropic-troping-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5348","title":{"rendered":"Tropic Troping Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My world is each changeling<br \/>\nstroke, a god\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>blue breath. Where clutches end,<br \/>\nnothing much to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>My skin shines<br \/>\nlike melted pennies.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how the light is on watch.<br \/>\nEternity is incremental. A mouthto-<\/p>\n<p>trough existence is simple.<br \/>\nOur regard for each other a series<\/p>\n<p>of seconds raring<br \/>\nto stare and stare. Narcissistic?<\/p>\n<p>Not for me to say. All is blood gain,<br \/>\nfib by fib. I wonder, hot-bladed \u201cloon,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>are you one such bit of marginalia,<br \/>\na pattern of foxfire scat strewn<\/p>\n<p>wherever I turn? Love of pleasure wakes<br \/>\nyou, copper-steeped,<\/p>\n<p>startled with disgust.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5465\">Stephen Massimilla<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My world is each changeling stroke, a god\u2019s blue breath. Where clutches end, nothing much to grasp. My skin shines like melted pennies. That\u2019s how the light is on watch. Eternity is incremental. A mouthto- trough existence is simple. Our regard for each other a series of seconds raring to stare and stare. Narcissistic? Not [&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":[15],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1og","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348"}],"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=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10256,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/10256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}