{"id":116,"date":"2011-01-01T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:21","slug":"figure-studies-three-poems-after-salvadore-dali-city-of-drawers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2011\/01\/01\/figure-studies-three-poems-after-salvadore-dali-city-of-drawers\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Studies: Three Poems After Salvadore Dali: City of Drawers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honey,<br \/>\nyour fingers felt for the edge<br \/>\nand pried open the drawers of my body \u2014<br \/>\nwarped, soap-scented oak \u2014<br \/>\nto feel the lace of my underwear,<br \/>\nto bite the buttons of my skirts.<br \/>\nYou licked my pearls;<br \/>\nyou studied my family recipes and asked<br \/>\nwho cooked the red velvet cake, and<br \/>\ndo I remember the taste.<br \/>\nYou were the termite in the floorboards<br \/>\nof an antebellum hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Fat, hollowed thing,<br \/>\nyou laid on your back<br \/>\nand opened up so easily.<br \/>\nFresh cedar chest<br \/>\ncarrying your birth certificate<br \/>\nand the limbs of ex-lovers<br \/>\nwet with sawdust.<br \/>\n(I took a bracelet from one chewed wrist<br \/>\nwhen I thought you weren\u2019t looking \u2026 )<\/p>\n<p>Honey,<br \/>\nI know you\u2019ll keep my trinkets<br \/>\nhidden for women to find.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll crawl through streets<br \/>\ndressed in my journal entries<br \/>\nand then shed that skin behind buildings.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re just waiting to bury<br \/>\nmy grandmother\u2019s wedding ring<br \/>\nin the stinking dirt of your balcony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nissa Lee\u2019s<\/strong> poetry has appeared in <em>Wicked Alice, Breadcrumb Scabs, <\/em>and <em>Mannequin Envy. <\/em>She studies creative writing in the MFA program at Rutgers University in Camden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey, your fingers felt for the edge and pried open the drawers of my body \u2014 warped, soap-scented oak \u2014 to feel the lace of my underwear, to bite the buttons of my skirts. You licked my pearls; you studied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22096],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}