{"id":2235,"date":"2016-04-06T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:29:08","slug":"the-ages-of-fear-and-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/06\/the-ages-of-fear-and-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ages of Fear and Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em> \u00a0\u00a0The Lascaux Bulls <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> we keep our fears : in a small cave : where sometimes huddled : in together : one of us dares : to commit : our feelings : to permanence : we see : ourselves much : smaller than the animals : that would die : or kill : great hooves : horns : against our spears : we use the blood : of the fallen : as part : of our memory : we knew : only the mouth : the eye : the heart : the bone : before we : brought our tongues : to paint : here we : share our observations : how antelope herd : bulls charge : the horse rears : this is what we know : of ourselves too : inside us : shadows grew : much longer : then we could see : our fear : we know it : shared : on this finite wall <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J. P. Dancing Bear<\/strong> is editor for the <em>American Poetry Journal<\/em> and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, <em>Cephalopodic <\/em>(Glass Lyre Press, 2015), and <em>Love is a Burning Building<\/em> (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in <em>American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM<\/em> and elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0The Lascaux Bulls we keep our fears : in a small cave : where sometimes huddled : in together : one of us dares : to commit : our feelings : to permanence : we see : ourselves much :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}