{"id":2073,"date":"2013-07-04T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2021-08-04T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:23:05","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2013\/07\/04\/venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a distance, the planet looks<\/p>\n<p>soft as skin, mesas rising from the flat<\/p>\n<p>land, hand held across<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>a bellybutton, small desert brush<\/p>\n<p>with leaves curling like toes in the heat<\/p>\n<p>hot sun begging down<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>over the yellow curves<\/p>\n<p>and small hairs, freckled with pebbles<\/p>\n<p>a continuous aubade<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>and there, there so close<\/p>\n<p>is a single finger stroking<\/p>\n<p>the pale blue, fingernail<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>ghost white, hanging<\/p>\n<p>crescent moon, canyon<\/p>\n<p>parting for the wind, the scream<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stacey Balku<\/strong>n is a New Jersey poet with her heart in the south. She was named an honorable mention in the Tupelo Press Spring 2011 Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in <em>INCH, The New Laurel Review, Paper &amp; The Sea, Hoot Review,<\/em> and in cookbooks and audio recordings across the country. She lives in California, where she explores the deserts, mountains, and lakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a distance, the planet looks soft as skin, mesas rising from the flat land, hand held across a bellybutton, small desert brush with leaves curling like toes in the heat hot sun begging down over the yellow curves and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}