who is narcissus to charge forth, a bull, fear of blood miming his limbs?\u00a0\u00a0we refuse to give up our skin for his armor, we who are smaller than the seeds, we who are not dead.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we know everything\u2014will contact spirits to meet the boy on his nightly swim; take his head, his mother\u2019s carrion. until then, do not work him down. he is thin without the pains of reflection as autoclave. fraud and tailors will open your body to a watery city, clouds forming in the abdomen. what skin? what reputation? beneath your chest, the stone will recommend a soul, a sky. & soon, again, Karissa Morton<\/strong> is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, & holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where she currently teaches courses in creative writing & freshman comp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" who is narcissus to charge forth, a bull, fear of blood miming his limbs?\u00a0\u00a0we refuse to give up our skin for his armor, we who are smaller than the seeds, we who are not dead. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we know everything\u2014will contact spirits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
but you\u2014yes, you<\/em>\u2014are a human flower.<\/p>\n
my son, my air,
pressure can break
your heart.<\/p>\n
& then, signal to it:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0see my banks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0welcome home.
say, in doubt, there is morning<\/em><\/p>\n
\u00a0it will be night.<\/p>\n\n\n