{"id":9253,"date":"2014-12-01T01:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:30:55","slug":"tanya-muzumdar-expecting-widow-visits-the-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/9253","title":{"rendered":"Expecting Widow Visits the Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin-left: 60px\">Orange horses<\/span><br \/>\noverlap, tails<br \/>\ngripping<br \/>\na mutual inch of sea-<br \/>\ngrass \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Their<br \/>\nviny coronets<br \/>\nrock in the current&#8217;s<br \/>\nslow jet<br \/>\n<em>like the nerve<\/em><br \/>\n<em>pattern<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 60px\"><em>he left<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em>beating inside me<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 60px\">He pumps water<\/span><br \/>\nthrough his pouch<br \/>\nShe sheds a third<br \/>\nof her body in eggs<br \/>\n&amp; swims<br \/>\naway<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 60px\">Nights later<\/span><br \/>\nclinging to the rag<br \/>\nof grass, he<br \/>\nspouts babies<br \/>\nNew<br \/>\nseahorses turn cart-<br \/>\nwheels<br \/>\nWithin hours of birth<br \/>\nshe slips<br \/>\neggs into him<br \/>\nagain<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 60px\">New selves<\/span><br \/>\nspinning<br \/>\ninto saltwater<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8941\">Tanya Muzumdar<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange horses overlap, tails gripping a mutual inch of sea- grass \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Their viny coronets rock in the current&#8217;s slow jet like the nerve pattern he left beating inside me He pumps water through his pouch She sheds a third of her body in eggs &amp; swims away Nights later clinging to the rag of grass, [&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-2pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253"}],"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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}