{"id":7943,"date":"2014-04-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2015-02-14T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T21:14:12","slug":"freud-dreams-of-sandman-julia-dasbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7943","title":{"rendered":"Freud Dreams of Sandman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cNow we have eyes enough\u201d &#8211; E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cut off my ears. I\u2019m left stone<br \/>\non water, an echo-brim<br \/>\nof bees. Cut out my tongue.    <\/p>\n<p><em>Louder<\/em>, I\u2019ll stay, unsilenced-<br \/>\nwolf against a snow-moon\u2019s<br \/>\nhowling, hollowing out\t   <\/p>\n<p>of stomach\u2019s pit, a pith<br \/>\nwhere nothing feeds<br \/>\nand nothing grows. <\/p>\n<p>Take it, my tongue, <em>hold<\/em>,<br \/>\nthe whole of it, teethed<br \/>\nand toothless, and I\u2019ll follow <\/p>\n<p>the way of the ground, her taste<br \/>\nfor contrast, the seasons<br \/>\nlike a plague soak down, <\/p>\n<p><em>stronger<\/em>, stronger still<br \/>\nun-mouthed. Cut off my nose.<br \/>\nI swear to make the wind,<\/p>\n<p><em>listen<\/em>, wind on water<br \/>\nlike a swarm of wasps,<br \/>\n<em>listen<\/em>, inhale it full. <\/p>\n<p>Cut off,<em> just do it<\/em>, my fingers,<br \/>\nI won\u2019t lose feeling,<br \/>\none by one, my knuckles<\/p>\n<p>know to swim through sand,<br \/>\nits desert current taking hold.<br \/>\nAnd last, <em>hurry<\/em>, you\u2019ve stalled it<\/p>\n<p>long enough, cut out my eyes,<br \/>\nand in their place, <em>watch me<\/em>,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll grow wings. <em>Watch<\/em>, <\/p>\n<p>the feathered-flight rise,<br \/>\n<em>find me<\/em>, hiding in your crescent<br \/>\nmoon-rock, blind <\/p>\n<p>and starving <em>claim me<\/em>, father<br \/>\nof the fatherless.<br \/>\nBeak held open, <\/p>\n<p><em>feed me<\/em> what\u2019s inside<br \/>\nyour birdlessness.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll wait for it, swallow <\/p>\n<p>dreaming from your lips:<br \/>\nthis white-<br \/>\neyed endless sleep.  <\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/7911\">Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow we have eyes enough\u201d &#8211; E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Sandman Cut off my ears. I\u2019m left stone on water, an echo-brim of bees. Cut out my tongue. Louder, I\u2019ll stay, unsilenced- wolf against a snow-moon\u2019s howling, hollowing out of stomach\u2019s pit, a pith where nothing feeds and nothing grows. Take it, my tongue, hold, the [&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":[12],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-247","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943"}],"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=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}