{"id":1119,"date":"2018-07-02T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","slug":"from-you-must-always-feed-from-the-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2018\/07\/02\/from-you-must-always-feed-from-the-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM You Must Always Feed from the Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

o most gifted eye do not<\/p>\n

see the banality of this world<\/p>\n

see only what grace lent<\/p>\n

in unwise pegasus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all eight<\/p>\n

wings of the seraphim<\/p>\n

avenge our grief\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0what is left<\/p>\n

what i believe<\/p>\n

a skull falls to earth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0i carry<\/p>\n

it around\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0show it the world\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here<\/p>\n

here\u00a0green proud hummingbird<\/p>\n

fervor pinked sky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0here<\/p>\n

cicadas have swarmed<\/p>\n

turtle is full<\/p>\n

moths have lived<\/p>\n

two days \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pine marten plays<\/p>\n

eats squirrel<\/p>\n

mountain bones crumble<\/p>\n

worn down by ice<\/p>\n

the sudden erosion of a seabed: why<\/p>\n

i murdered you\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the power<\/p>\n

of suggestion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of inflection<\/p>\n

of invocation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let me<\/p>\n

have you<\/p>\n

let me<\/p>\n

have you<\/p>\n

let me<\/p>\n

have you<\/p>\n

let me<\/p>\n

have you<\/p>\n

let me<\/p>\n

have you<\/p>\n

let me<\/p>\n

have<\/p>\n

Leia Penina Wilson<\/strong> is proudly Samoan. When she’s not reading YA Lit, she’s baking, making drinks, or playing Magic the Gathering. She loves animals. Her first book, i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)<\/em>, is available from Red Hen Press. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @rakishheir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

o most gifted eye do not see the banality of this world see only what grace lent in unwise pegasus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0all eight wings of the seraphim avenge our grief\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0what is left what i believe a skull falls to earth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0i carry it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"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=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}