{"id":1132,"date":"2018-01-01T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:28:10","slug":"how-to-eat-an-orange-no-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2018\/01\/01\/how-to-eat-an-orange-no-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Eat an Orange (No Hands)"},"content":{"rendered":"

after peel, let your tongue catch<\/p>\n

any drips\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n

there\u2019s more to oranges<\/p>\n

than membrane.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s seeds.<\/p>\n

& sometimes jewel-sheened<\/p>\n

flesh can shiver.<\/p>\n

(Use your teeth<\/p>\n

delicately.)<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

Precision is key with mouths<\/p>\n

and fumbling parts<\/p>\n

into them. Don\u2019t forget<\/p>\n

about lips<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

the hold<\/p>\n

& pull close.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

When it comes to the tang<\/p>\n

in the back of your throat:<\/p>\n

swallow.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

Start again\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n

slight tongue<\/p>\n

-tip pressure,<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

lips parted<\/p>\n

(never mind the slight bitterness<\/p>\n

of pericarp).<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n

There\u2019s just so much you don\u2019t know
about citrus.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Roseanna Alice Boswell<\/strong> is a poetry MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her work has appeared or will appear soon in: Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Capulet Magazine, Glittermob,<\/em> and elsewhere. Roseanna is currently acting as Managing Editor for the Mid-American Review<\/em>. You can find her on Twitter @swellbunny posting about feminism and her love of exclamation points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

after peel, let your tongue catch any drips\u2013\u2013 there\u2019s more to oranges than membrane. There\u2019s seeds. & sometimes jewel-sheened flesh can shiver. (Use your teeth delicately.) Precision is key with mouths and fumbling parts into them. Don\u2019t forget about lips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"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=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}