{"id":2147,"date":"2014-07-05T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:18:55","slug":"motherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2014\/07\/05\/motherland\/","title":{"rendered":"Motherland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><br>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>a modern tale<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><br>Near a mottled tree, <br>an anthem halted.<br>He renamed her, <br>enthralled her. <br>Not a hand held there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then her red month, <br>her other north, <br>mated and tamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metal thorn handed,<br>he hard demanded other.<br>He made her heart dormant;<br>a matron, haloed,<br>leaned older and older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her man told her<br>&#8220;All done, dear.&#8221;<br>Her mad other landed,<br>the end neared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear moth, hem death,<br>Hold on to the net.<br>Ardent-dream <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the lost arm,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the heron armhole, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the other molt,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the nomad mane.<br><br><br><br><br><br><strong>Sarah Ann Winn<\/strong> lives in Fairfax Virginia. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Apeiron Review, [d]ecember, Flycatcher, Lost River Review, Lunch Ticket, Massachusetts Review,<\/em> and Rappahannock Review, among others. Currently, she teaches poetry in public schools through a Sally Merton Fellowship. Visit her at <a href=\"\/\/bluebirdwords.com\u2030\u042b\u045c\"> http:\/\/bluebirdwords.com<\/a> or follow her @blueaisling on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a modern tale Near a mottled tree, an anthem halted.He renamed her, enthralled her. Not a hand held there. Then her red month, her other north, mated and tamed. Metal thorn handed,he hard demanded other.He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}