Odysseus does not come to bed. He spends his nights
\nlooking at jars; gestures of a hand job from a topless
\nsiren. The image poorly drawn, her fingers resemble
\nweapons. He will sleep when we rise. I\u2019ve learned <\/p>\n
to treasure his distance\u2014it gives room in our bed
\nfor a child. I watch my son on the brink of waking\u2014
\nhow his whole self tumbles in waves of breath\u2014
\ncompletely taken with sleep\u2014his face pulses <\/p>\n
without muscle to mask the mechanics of life.
\nOh, this is love for the loveless. I no longer
\nfeel like I am waiting. As a witness, I am
\nalive\u2014even if my husband treats me
\nas though I\u2019m made of death. <\/p>\n
Odysseus does not come to bed. He spends his nights looking at jars; gestures of a hand job from a topless siren. The image poorly drawn, her fingers resemble weapons. He will sleep when we rise. I\u2019ve learned to treasure<\/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\/242"}],"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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"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":"