{"id":128,"date":"2009-12-16T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:46","slug":"california-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2009\/12\/16\/california-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after all these nights away, a dream coughed up the perfect metaphor: L.A. played on an IMAX screen and I sat in the theater. The control-box voice narrated smog like smog was a monarch butterfly on a filmstrip soundtrack. Thick as cigarette smoke, hyperbolic. A term for every gust. I knew the narrow blue building forcing its way up to the street, but couldn\u2019t remember the intersection. Finally I noticed the screen, understood the image was both near and far. Score another for the dream, for all the places like that, marquees and billboards I can still see rolling by in slow motion in my mind\u2019s car-window frame. \u00a0Smug and compassless, left to my own devices, I will never find any of it again. A man in the audience said <em>There are trees beyond there<\/em>, and although we couldn\u2019t see them, we burrowed our vision like cathode rays, looked hard, and knew it was true. In real life I was living quietly in Chicago and watching lots of foreign films for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becca Klaver<\/strong> is a founding editor of the feminist poetry press <em>Switchback Books<\/em> and a PhD student in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. She is the author of the chapbook <em>Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape<\/em> (greying ghost press, 2009), and her first full-length collection,<em> LA Liminal, <\/em>will be published by Kore Press in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after all these nights away, a dream coughed up the perfect metaphor: L.A. played on an IMAX screen and I sat in the theater. The control-box voice narrated smog like smog was a monarch butterfly on a filmstrip soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}