{"id":2215,"date":"2015-09-06T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2021-08-06T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:28:19","slug":"recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2015\/09\/06\/recital\/","title":{"rendered":"Recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking \/ a number is not for you \/ to guess I am over coy<\/p>\n<p>bebes that \/ coil around the feet \/ that lech \/ unnoticed until<\/p>\n<p>someone\u2019s dangling from my meat-hook \/ I am not over meat<\/p>\n<p>yet \/ count the numberless \/ the times I jackrabbit off \/ stage<\/p>\n<p>performing fishy interpretive demonstrations of \/ my gender-<\/p>\n<p>squeal \/ in heels I am touch-and-go \/ my every clomp sparks tiny<\/p>\n<p>explosions \/ my eyebrows are gone \/ I am almost ready \/ I know<\/p>\n<p>how to follow \/ directions doll-eyed cooing I want \/ new<\/p>\n<p>eyebrows \/ a baby a bunny a blushing \/ gun to blow \/ crack<\/p>\n<p>snapplepop \u2018n flash \/ it at dumb admirers \/ you know what \/ it<\/p>\n<p>is show&amp;tell<\/p>\n<p>I play interested \/ I slide down the widest pink \/ tongue<\/p>\n<p>thrashing \/ carp overflow me \/ monthly I am mourning black-<\/p>\n<p>velveteen \/ I\u2019ll vomit for whomever \/ gaze at my rubyred scape<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Madeline Vardell<\/strong> is an MFA candidate at New Mexico State University. She is the winner of the 2013 Kay Murphy Prize in Poetry, selected by Lara Glenum. Her work has recently appeared in <em>Beecher&#8217;s Magazine, Bayou Magazine, Rhino, [PANK], <\/em> and <em>Whiskey Island<\/em>. She lives in Mesilla, New Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thinking \/ a number is not for you \/ to guess I am over coy bebes that \/ coil around the feet \/ that lech \/ unnoticed until someone\u2019s dangling from my meat-hook \/ I am not over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215"}],"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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}