{"id":6386,"date":"2013-04-01T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:35:05","slug":"elegy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6386","title":{"rendered":"Elegy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the door broken open: smoke,<br \/>\nhoneysuckle, ashed-over daffodils.<\/p>\n<p>Nearer the coast fires barricade brush<br \/>\ninto blackness. Your eyes clot<\/p>\n<p>like knots of wax carved out<br \/>\nin the unmelting light. A hiss<\/p>\n<p>under the floor. This is the under<br \/>\n-belly of our days: mercy too old for us<\/p>\n<p>drained into gutterstream, a shallows<br \/>\nraking grooves into the soot. You<\/p>\n<p>lie motionless in the morning.<br \/>\nA bundle of tendrils. By noon<\/p>\n<p>you winnow out of the open<br \/>\ndoor &amp; leave behind a lump of wax<\/p>\n<p>too soft for the light to blade<br \/>\ninto dying twice in one day.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6330\">P. J. Williams<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the door broken open: smoke, honeysuckle, ashed-over daffodils. Nearer the coast fires barricade brush into blackness. Your eyes clot like knots of wax carved out in the unmelting light. A hiss under the floor. This is the under -belly of our days: mercy too old for us drained into gutterstream, a shallows raking grooves [&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\/s6Jypy-elegy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386"}],"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=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10109,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/10109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}