{"id":9236,"date":"2014-12-01T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:02:28","slug":"taneum-bambrick-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/9236","title":{"rendered":"Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I become part of this garbage<br \/>\ncrew, empty cans<br \/>\nalong the Wanapum Pool.<br \/>\nPeel condoms off rocks<br \/>\nbeside fire pits\u2014call<br \/>\nthem <em>snakeskins<\/em>.<br \/>\nI learn quick.<br \/>\nWhen there&#8217;s a hoof<br \/>\nin the road<br \/>\nI know<br \/>\nto grope through the ditch<br \/>\nfor the rest of the goat.<br \/>\nI sling bags so they won&#8217;t split,<br \/>\nmy uniform juiced with intestines<br \/>\nof liquefied King Salmon.<br \/>\nI shovel a pit bull<br \/>\nfrom a plastic tub<br \/>\nin a parking lot\u2014he&#8217;s<br \/>\ndense and flat at the belly,<br \/>\na figurine.<br \/>\nI stop dry heaving<br \/>\nover the dead-animal-dumpster<br \/>\nat head quarters, even as it vibrates<br \/>\nwith maggots, the stink<br \/>\ngenerating its own heat.<br \/>\nAnd as the part-body<br \/>\nof a man is fished from the river,<br \/>\nduct taped to a tarp,<br \/>\nI wade in to my knees.<br \/>\nWatching for bones, coils<br \/>\nof skin, I try to imagine<br \/>\nhis knife-bisection<br \/>\nat the hips, the sound<br \/>\nof a spine snapped.<br \/>\nMy litter grabbers outstretched,<br \/>\nI\u2019m combing for the bottom half.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8941\">Taneum Bambrick<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I become part of this garbage crew, empty cans along the Wanapum Pool. Peel condoms off rocks beside fire pits\u2014call them snakeskins. I learn quick. When there&#8217;s a hoof in the road I know to grope through the ditch for the rest of the goat. I sling bags so they won&#8217;t split, my uniform juiced [&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":[7],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2oY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236"}],"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=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}