{"id":1073,"date":"2013-07-15T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2021-08-04T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:34:33","slug":"elegy-for-a-singing-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2013\/07\/15\/elegy-for-a-singing-river\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEGY FOR A SINGING RIVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the shores fanned out like dark kidneys, moon a tiny mirror on her face<\/p>\n<p>she lists the dangers knowing nothing but despair of rain in stomach<\/p>\n<p>if water were to loss as light is to body, then let it be <em>voice, anthem, bells<\/em><\/p>\n<p>let human hands link like water-roots, for what is the rhythm of breath<\/p>\n<p>but waves in a current? the grain of the voice in a bed of silt &amp; bone<\/p>\n<p>a language known to winter cypress who understand nothing<\/p>\n<p>stays preserved for long: the river is always in embryo:<\/p>\n<p>no matter how they strive downward the bones will surface white<\/p>\n<p>as shells, air stinging in their hollows, the presence of <em>collect it from the wind<\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Casey Nichols<\/strong> is an MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University. She received her BA in English from Kent State University. In 2010, her work was published in<em> Luna Negra <\/em>and won the Wick Poetry Undergraduate Competition. Currently, she works as an assistant editor for <em>Mid-American Review.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the shores fanned out like dark kidneys, moon a tiny mirror on her face she lists the dangers knowing nothing but despair of rain in stomach if water were to loss as light is to body, then let it be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}