What if my sideways smile
\nslipped down a little,<\/p>\n
did not behave? Darling
\nSister, love me, do you<\/p>\n
not, unbraiding your hair
\ninto waves? Our house rocks<\/p>\n
like a ship at sea, our house
\nhums in the night. Planets<\/p>\n
coast by like peculiar eyes,
\npinpricks in the glass<\/p>\n
of the window. Sing Oh Consonant,
\nOh Vowel. Oh Consonant again.<\/p>\n
Speech between your lips
\nlumpy as soup, burning like gin.<\/p>\n
Breathe on me, so softly.
\nBring me nightmares again.<\/p>\n
Annah Browning <\/strong>hails from the foothills of South Carolina, but currently calls Chicago home. She holds a Ph.D. from the Program for Writers at The University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the author of a chapbook, The Marriage <\/em>(Horse Less Press, 2013), and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Willow Springs, Verse Daily, Indiana Review<\/em>, and other journals. She is poetry editor of Grimoire,<\/em> an online literary magazine of dark arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What if my sideways smile slipped down a little, did not behave? Darling Sister, love me, do you not, unbraiding your hair into waves? Our house rocks like a ship at sea, our house hums in the night. Planets coast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"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=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}