{"id":443,"date":"2010-06-17T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:29","slug":"torn-dress-after-laura-kasisckes-new-dress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2010\/06\/17\/torn-dress-after-laura-kasisckes-new-dress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Torn Dress [after Laura Kasiscke&#8217;s New Dress (2)]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><BR><br \/>\n<em>Leave it in the closet,<br \/>\nalone,<\/em> my sister said. <\/p>\n<p>She draped it on the floor<br \/>\ncovering the socks and shoes,<br \/>\nand frowned, and I<br \/>\ncould see why:<\/p>\n<p>The disease of it was growing.<\/p>\n<p>And it continued to grow<\/p>\n<p>all through breakfast<br \/>\nand into Cimmerian,<\/p>\n<p>until, around it, the floorboards, the walls<br \/>\nwere no longer there, as if<\/p>\n<p>the blue eyelet cotton<br \/>\nhad swallowed the house (<em>her<\/p>\n<p>no-place, shapeless space with nothing<br \/>\nbut a car ride, nothing whole, nothing <\/p>\n<p>wanting to dance, or drink, or sleep \u2013 no<\/p>\n<p>storms, no sight, no fingernails, no voice)<\/em> as if <\/p>\n<p>he was an incubus,<br \/>\nnot a chokehold,<\/p>\n<p>twining around Slavic letters that settle<br \/>\nin deep grooves:<\/p>\n<p>the cut off bra,<br \/>\nthe cut-off jeans,<br \/>\nthe cut out tissue<br \/>\non the front of your thighs<br \/>\nand the backs of your hands<\/p>\n<p><em>cut  away some more,<br \/>\njust a little bit more<\/em><\/p>\n<p>until these strands<br \/>\nspeak and eat \u2013  <\/p>\n<p>they steal oatmeal right off your plate \u2013  <\/p>\n<p>they are a she, and she wants your name,<br \/>\nyour rapist\u2019s name;<\/p>\n<p>wants to drink well water<br \/>\nfrom your birth town,<\/p>\n<p>holding a child resembling<br \/>\nthe one you think you had,<\/p>\n<p>but the more hairs she plucks<br \/>\noff your scalp,<\/p>\n<p>the less you resist<br \/>\nwhen she takes your heirlooms<\/p>\n<p>and sells them on the sidewalk<br \/>\nfor money to buy a new dress.<BR><BR><BR><BR><br \/>\n<strong>Lana Rakhman<\/strong> is currently completing her MFA at Northwestern University. She has assistant taught creative writing courses at Roosevelt University, and assistant edits the literary journal <em>TriQuarterly<\/em>. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and does not know how to ride a bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it in the closet, alone, my sister said. She draped it on the floor covering the socks and shoes, and frowned, and I could see why: The disease of it was growing. And it continued to grow all through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}