Looking back,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve caught her in mid-air,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the girl in this picture. What\u2019s\nleft <\/p>\n\n\n\n
of summer\u2014 loose gold <\/p>\n\n\n\n
in an upsurge of hair, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
a scalp-bounced, tree-ward, throng\ndrawn <\/p>\n\n\n\n
all the way from her soles<\/p>\n\n\n\n
against the snap-back, shallow give<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of backyard earth, stretched<\/p>\n\n\n\n
spring to spring, then\ntrampoline-ing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
up and out. Her mouth, a tunnel\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mid-word gone dark, bliss at the\ncorner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of her lips, just an upswing, an\nalmost<\/p>\n\n\n\n
exhale. One eye hidden in the\nreverb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of tangled bangs, the other caught<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like the wing-arc of a coasting bird;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a caged gaze, a defiance, a dare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kinetic. No netting necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laura Sobbott Ross <\/strong>has worked as a teacher and a writing coach for Lake County Schools and was recently named as Lake County\u2019s first poet laureate. Her poetry appears in many journals, including Blackbird, Florida Review, and 32 Poems. She was a finalist for the Art & Letters Poetry Prize and won the Southern Humanities Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Her poetry chapbooks are A Tiny Hunger<\/em> and My Mississippi<\/em>. A third book, The Graffiti of Pompeii<\/em>, was released in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking back, I\u2019ve caught her in mid-air, the girl in this picture. What\u2019s left of summer\u2014 loose gold in an upsurge of hair, a scalp-bounced, tree-ward, throng drawn all the way from her soles against the snap-back, shallow give of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848"}],"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=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}