{"id":1701,"date":"2018-01-02T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2021-08-03T19:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:52:31","slug":"parentheticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2018\/01\/02\/parentheticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Parentheticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>once a car called me a bitch through (accursed)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;horn encrusted mouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>human rights (nightmares) <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;occurring on my guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>feel their invisible handguns scrape <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(metaphor) inside my shoulder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>an (with my son) impression, an (disquiet) inquiry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(some laugh at the discomfort in my mouth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a car does not want to (slaughter) incarcerate <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to the breathing, it is unconscionable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(corresponding) gas or brake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brenda Serpick<\/strong>&nbsp;is the author of three chapbooks:&nbsp;<em>the other conjunction in it&nbsp;<\/em>(Furniture Press 2018),&nbsp;<em>No Sequence But Luck<\/em>&nbsp;(3 Sad Tigers Press) and&nbsp;<em>The Female Skeleton Makes Her Debut&nbsp;<\/em>(Hophophop Press). She was a participating poet for Tupelo Press\u2019 30\/30 Project (July 2016), and her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Tule Review, The Potomac, Free State Review, eccolinguistics, Printer\u2019s Devil Review, Spiral Orb, LIT, Lungfull! Magazine,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Boog City<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 among other fine journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She currently teaches 12th grade English and creative writing for Baltimore City Public Schools. See some of her students\u2019 work&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/https\/\/polygraphs.wordpress.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>once a car called me a bitch through (accursed)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;horn encrusted mouth human rights (nightmares) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;occurring on my guard feel their invisible handguns scrape &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(metaphor) inside my shoulder an (with my son) impression, an (disquiet) inquiry (some laugh at the discomfort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}