{"id":7496,"date":"2013-12-01T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:04:41","slug":"palindrome-nate-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7496","title":{"rendered":"Palindrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>after Lisel Mueller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>on her profile i see she has two kids,<br \/>\nnow one she had in high school, now none<br \/>\nat all. she is unaborting the one<br \/>\nshe didn\u2019t not have. she is unpregnant<br \/>\nin eighth grade. she unresembles<br \/>\nher favorite pop singer pink. she uncuts<br \/>\nher hair, unchops it long and feminine.<br \/>\nher new boyfriend is forgetting the weight of her.<br \/>\nshe is leaving her new boyfriend. he is forgetting<br \/>\nher phone number. she is becoming my girlfriend<br \/>\nshe is picking up the phone and i am on the line<br \/>\nungiving a goodbye. her best friend is trading letters<br \/>\nbetween us. we each open letters<br \/>\nfrom ourselves with hearts on the outside.<br \/>\nshe is transferring to our magnet school. she is moving<br \/>\nto a neighborhood close by. we are separating<br \/>\nat the lips. we have never kissed behind the school.<br \/>\nshe is unchecking the yes box on the note and i am taking away<br \/>\nmy middle school love letter. i am unmeeting her cop father<br \/>\nand her chicano moms. we are walking into baskin robbins<br \/>\nthrowing up gold medal ribbon ice cream into cups.<br \/>\nit is rounding into scoops and flattening into gallon drums<br \/>\nof sugar and cream and coldness. we are six years old.<br \/>\nmaybe we can go back to then. i am unlearning<br \/>\nher name, the way it is spelled the same<br \/>\nbackwards. how it flips on a page, or in my mouth.<br \/>\ni have never known words could do that<br \/>\nuntil 5 minutes from now.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7369\">Nate Marshall<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Lisel Mueller on her profile i see she has two kids, now one she had in high school, now none at all. she is unaborting the one she didn\u2019t not have. she is unpregnant in eighth grade. she unresembles her favorite pop singer pink. she uncuts her hair, unchops it long and feminine. her [&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":[6],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1WU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496"}],"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=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}