There is never enough time to teach the art of return.
\nHome is the lie that never stops telling stories. Once <\/p>\n
upon a time there were three sisters. Sirens who tried
\nto love everything they were not. They failed and kept <\/p>\n
failing until a ship sailed past their efforts. They burst
\ninto sea foam\u2014followed the men to shore. The salt of <\/p>\n
their arms made it onto the men\u2019s tables. They were no
\nlonger monsters, but flavor. Sorrow can taste delicious.<\/p>\n
Son, do not fall under the currents of time. Enjoy sadness,
\nbut don\u2019t live there. This is only a story. The sisters will <\/p>\n
find their way back to the sea and I\u2019ll always be a sort
\nof home\u2014even if home can only be a lie telling stories. <\/p>\n
There is never enough time to teach the art of return. Home is the lie that never stops telling stories. Once upon a time there were three sisters. Sirens who tried to love everything they were not. They failed 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":[22094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNicelle Davis<\/strong> lives in Southern California with her son J.J. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Broadsided, Front Range, FuseLit, Mosaic, ML Press, The New York Quarterly, Offending Adam, SLAB Magazine, SLAB, Two Review, <\/em>and others. She\u2019d like to acknowledge her poetry family at the University of California, Riverside and Antelope Valley Community College. She runs a free online poetry workshop at The Bees\u2019 Knees Blog<\/em> and is an assistant poetry editor of Connotation Press. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"