The most precious metals,<\/p>\n
the most antiseptic swatter in cahoots with the aquarium of the body. <\/p>\n
& it is you ascending,
\nyou exhaling,
\n& you,
\n& you. <\/p>\n
Through the red-winged
\nblackbird\u2019s pupil, apples pluck
\nthemselves like suns from branches,
\nsome frosty with home-wrecking.<\/p>\n
Her teakettle dreamt toppled,
\ngarrulous fingers retrieving,
\nfondling, what is the procedure?<\/p>\n
Have you received the official
\naffidavit signed by physics,
\na pasty mirage of mayors
\nbeyond the horizon?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s lick the bowl, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let\u2019s remain seated.<\/em> The most precious metals, the most antiseptic swatter in cahoots with the aquarium of the body. & it is you ascending, you exhaling, & you, & you. Through the red-winged blackbird\u2019s pupil, apples pluck themselves like suns from branches, some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLina ramona Vitkauskas<\/strong> has published four books of poetry: A Neon Tryst <\/em>(Shearsman Books, 2013); Honey is a She (<\/em>Plastique Press, 2012); The Range of Your Amazing Nothing<\/em> (Ravenna Press, 2010); and Failed Star Spawns Planet\/Star <\/em>(dancing girl press, 2006). She was selected by Brenda Hillman for The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 2009 Juried Reading Award and has been published in\/will be published in DIAGRAM, VLAK <\/em>(Eds. Edmund Berrigan & Louis Armand); The Prague Literary Review; The Chicago Review; Another Chicago Magazine;<\/em> and White Fungus<\/em> (Taiwan), which is currently on display at MoMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"