I have given away the sea.
\nIt once moved me.<\/p>\n
Here, when I raise my arms,
\nI leave no shadow. I have<\/p>\n
given away the light.
\nSo there would be<\/p>\n
nothing
\nleft to take from me.<\/p>\n
I have given away
\nmy hair, the silk<\/p>\n
from my head, the blonder
\nthreads from my limbs, from<\/p>\n
the pubis\u2014I\u2019m all skin
\nnow. If I keep<\/p>\n
this up to bone
\nthere will be no dark<\/p>\n
left in me. I
\ngave away the parts\u2014the soul<\/p>\n
rose: a cloud, a sorcerer.
\nI had no hands to grasp it.<\/p>\n
And so it got away
\nbefore I could give it.<\/p>\n
The shore is a desert now.
\nI gave away the sea.<\/p>\n
I have given away the sea. It once moved me. Here, when I raise my arms, I leave no shadow. I have given away the light. So there would be nothing left to take from me. I have given away my hair, the silk from my head, the blonder threads from my limbs, from the […]<\/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-1Y9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573"}],"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=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10228,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}