{"id":1108,"date":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:59:17","slug":"approximately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/09\/24\/approximately\/","title":{"rendered":"APPROXIMATELY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ghost forward through secret garden tunes<br \/>to St. John\u2019s Priory. She plays black abbey<\/p>\n<p>ribs back alley, she worships electric chess<br \/>and smacks hard his jukebox.<\/p>\n<p><em>On weekend nights Queen Jane sniffs glue\/beneath her bed with Rougarou.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She learned to reed, learned to bob her head,<br \/>zipped her orchids in their vases. Coast-line sinks.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Jane coasts across the Spillway Bridge,<br \/>rainclouds a Rorschach-uterus plugged up.<\/p>\n<p>Nicks her car and spinal cord, disk bulged<br \/>and turtle-shell broken, all ivory beneath her skirt.<\/p>\n<p>Scuffed marble. So midnight clutches his fist. <br \/>So Queen Jane settles and reapplies<\/p>\n<p>her lipstick, collects q-tips instead of sleep. <br \/>Deaf screams, death by screens<\/p>\n<p>she names street-signs and hurricanes,<br \/>reads his mosquito bites like braille.<\/p>\n<p>Still. Jugs of wine with sleepy Rougarou,<br \/>he shares a lullaby upon her bed. A hand-me-down tune.<\/p>\n<p><em>And if I die before I wake\/I pray the prayer my prayer to take.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Theriot<\/strong> is a Louisiana-native and University of New Orleans graduate. She has just completed her first year as an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she is an Assistant Poetry Editor for the <em>Black Warrior Review.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost forward through secret garden tunesto St. John\u2019s Priory. She plays black abbey ribs back alley, she worships electric chessand smacks hard his jukebox. On weekend nights Queen Jane sniffs glue\/beneath her bed with Rougarou. She learned to reed, learned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}