Dog me, my shadow, your quavering like a dime-store cape,
\nmudsling me so I’m disguised, a wavy slur in rear-<\/p>\n
view mirrors. Make me sip elixir of rain until
\nmy tongue coils up inside my ribs. Till I hum my frowzy<\/p>\n
drunken thrum and need a monocle to see. Bait me
\ninto a cage where I’m starved. Unbolt me. For I’m sought<\/p>\n
on posters, on gravel roads, and mug sheets. Kick me
\npast your feet. Let’s dribble against wild turkeys<\/p>\n
down the basketball court, wood tokens flying
\nin our exhaust. Fog me with heavy breathing and heat<\/p>\n
and only then I’ll admit defeat by birds. For this humility
\nI am ever twinned to you. With your bow, shoot sequins<\/p>\n
into my earlobes. Mottle me with henna of raspberries, pierce
\nmy nose with star thistle as a patch of crabgrass catcalls<\/p>\n
in the wind. Look. A drone flies over for photos, zooms in:
\nI’ll be a known iota but for you, my avatar.<\/p>\n
Dog me, my shadow, your quavering like a dime-store cape, mudsling me so I’m disguised, a wavy slur in rear- view mirrors. Make me sip elixir of rain until my tongue coils up inside my ribs. Till I hum my frowzy drunken thrum and need a monocle to see. Bait me into a cage where […]<\/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-2pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258"}],"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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10154,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}