{"id":6384,"date":"2013-04-01T00:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:33:57","slug":"i-go-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6384","title":{"rendered":"I Go Like This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody with ill intentions<br \/>\nhas come to my door.<br \/>\nWhen he knocks, a murder<br \/>\nof crows ascends from my roof<br \/>\nlike a hat lifting<br \/>\nfrom a mourner\u2019s head.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t we all believe ourselves<br \/>\nexempt until we\u2019re suddenly \u2013<br \/>\nor slowly (with needles) not?<br \/>\nTwo raps on the wood.<br \/>\nA formality, as it turns out. <\/p>\n<p>He moves along the inside<br \/>\nof our bodies, like paper<br \/>\nin flames. If I hide in my closet,<br \/>\nhe wears me there too.<br \/>\nWhen he offers his hand,<br \/>\nI have already locked<br \/>\nfingers with him.<br \/>\nEven if I thrash and call out<br \/>\nfor my mother like a child,<br \/>\nhe\u2019ll note my tongue,<br \/>\nadd it to the list<br \/>\nof parts he\u2019ll take.<br \/>\nIn a basket I will go,<br \/>\nmy house whipped clean. <\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6330\">Dara-Lyn Shrager<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody with ill intentions has come to my door. When he knocks, a murder of crows ascends from my roof like a hat lifting from a mourner\u2019s head. Don\u2019t we all believe ourselves exempt until we\u2019re suddenly \u2013 or slowly (with needles) not? Two raps on the wood. A formality, as it turns out. He [&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":[11],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1EY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384"}],"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=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}