{"id":769,"date":"2017-06-16T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:18:30","slug":"my-body-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2017\/06\/16\/my-body-a-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"My Body, A Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not as I expected.<br \/>\nIn this mess, you shall not miss me,<br \/>\nI have decided.<br \/>\nReady for war,<br \/>\nSuch fireworks, they upset me.<br \/>\nBlood falls down.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I envy you!<br \/>\nYou are always there<br \/>\nAs roots cling to Earth.<br \/>\nMy Nurse,<br \/>\nWith hair and wings.<br \/>\nI pass out and let strangers touch me.<\/p>\n<p>A nest of eggs.<br \/>\nWhite ovaries crowd inside like pale globes.<br \/>\nI hatch one out: a dirty chick<br \/>\nCrouching yellow in the corner. I catch the drips of<br \/>\nBlack blood.<br \/>\nFilthy Witch, I am chasing stars.<\/p>\n<p>Bastard. My vagina opens like a wound.<br \/>\nThe red sea parts and you run to me.<br \/>\nWild ghost,<br \/>\nYou have found me out!<br \/>\nFireworks dive through my fingertips.<br \/>\nI will cut your face clean off.<\/p>\n<p>Blame teases your breasts.<br \/>\nMy shame is stuck in the air like rape,<br \/>\nAlone with God and<br \/>\nTurned out like a soiled cloth.<br \/>\nI am awful and deaf.<br \/>\nThey arrange themselves on sandy beaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natalie Crick<\/strong> has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. Her poetry is influenced by melancholic confessional Women&#8217;s poetry. Her poetry has been published in a range of journals and magazines including <em>Cannons Mouth, Cyphers, Ariadne&#8217;s Thread, Carillon<\/em> and <em>National Poetry Anthology<\/em> 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not as I expected. In this mess, you shall not miss me, I have decided. Ready for war, Such fireworks, they upset me. Blood falls down. Oh, how I envy you! You are always there As roots cling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}