{"id":702,"date":"2013-02-15T22:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:20:10","slug":"silk-flowers-trussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2013\/02\/15\/silk-flowers-trussed\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Flowers, Trussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strapless, you slip into the suicide seat. We swipe bicyclists and barn doors barreling detours. The highway knows which way to turn. Forked road, forks, and a flask for a picnic. I read to you from a cereal box. Here\u2019s plastic sushi and candied lemon, fallen apples and dandelion tea. Your hair covers your eyes. You twist statements to questions. Confession: I\u2019ve never kept orchids alive. Down Main Street, mannequins proffer bouquets: carnations, stitched. Your duct taped lips. <BR><BR><BR><BR><br \/>\n<strong>Kristina Marie Darling<\/strong> is the author of eight books of poetry. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Kristina is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Poetics at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo, where she holds a Presidential Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carol Guess <\/strong>is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including <em>Tinderbox Lawn<\/em> and <em>Doll Studies: Forensics<\/em>. She is Professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Creative Writing and Queer Studies.  Follow her  at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolguess.blogspot.com\">carolguess.blogstpot.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strapless, you slip into the suicide seat. We swipe bicyclists and barn doors barreling detours. The highway knows which way to turn. Forked road, forks, and a flask for a picnic. I read to you from a cereal box. Here\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22024,22070],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}