A high-speed car chase & a half-
\non-purpose boob graze: sometimes
\nmy heart feels like both, only
\nthe vehicle in question is an ice<\/p>\n
cream truck & the half-graze
\nis more of a full-on punch & both
\nsound like \u201cPOP Goes the Weasel\u201d
\nuntil my ears burst daisies<\/p>\n
& my throat sprouts biceps \u2013
\nI can\u2019t breathe through the chicken-
\nbone beach crossing its legs
\nin my nostrils, tanning the span<\/p>\n
of my kneecaps as rainbows
\ncome of age and blow away
\ntheir hurricane nemeses \u2013 I see
\nthe red and blue lights in your eyes,<\/p>\n
oscillating in the ebb of your go-away
\nface \u2013 no, come hither, no:
\nyour earlobe has its own language
\n& I can\u2019t conjugate it anymore.<\/p>\n
A high-speed car chase & a half- on-purpose boob graze: sometimes my heart feels like both, only the vehicle in question is an ice cream truck & the half-graze is more of a full-on punch & both sound like \u201cPOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Kati<\/strong> can’t figure out what she wants to be. Currently, she’s a torn fiction \/ poetry graduate student at the NEOMFA and a teaching assistant at The University of Akron. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gesture,<\/em> among others, and her fiction has appeared in Rubbertop Review,<\/em> where she also works as co-editor-in-chief. She is a reader of fiction and poetry for Whiskey Island<\/em> and the Web Manager for the Big Big Mess<\/em>. Born in Muncie, IN, she was forced into Northeast Ohio on a dare when she was four, and only looks back now if you ask her to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"