The body replicates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the body\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unfolding
\ntomorrow I\u2019m going to put on my green dress<\/p>\n
the light will taper me a pale green parchment
\nall thirst, all thirst and shadow, all shoulder under the cold lemonade sun.<\/p>\n
I came to dance out of hunger\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0Tapered fingers like birds of prey
\nbitter, bursting like a pomegranate. I came to make your kidneys endure it<\/p>\n
to devour you like grains of wheat, like seeds. A bird of prey on an empty
\nhighway.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In each body,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of thunderstorm.<\/p>\n
Set yellow flares about the walls of the yard
\nI came to walk in the streets. Make bells ring, shout<\/p>\n
Bring four thousand eyes.
\nMy head and hands are full of eyes.<\/p>\n
This poem is from Jesse Nissim’s <\/strong> Diagram Her Dream of Flight<\/em>, which was a runner up for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Award in 2008 and a semifinalist in 2010. Nissim is the author of the chapbook Alphabet for M<\/em> (Dancing Girl Press) and her work has appeared in 26, 580 Split, Borderlands, ecopoetics, Fourteen Hills, Mad Hatter\u2019s Review, New American Writing, RHINO, Transfer <\/em>and XANTIPPE.<\/em> New work is forthcoming in Court Green.<\/em> She is currently a Faculty Writing Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body replicates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the body\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0unfolding tomorrow I\u2019m going to put on my green dress the light will taper me a pale green parchment all thirst, all thirst and shadow, all shoulder under the cold lemonade sun. I came to dance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}