{"id":799,"date":"2017-06-16T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:18:16","slug":"first-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2017\/06\/16\/first-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"First Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is not sliding off a cliff stepping into the man\u2019s red car. She is not falling like a<br \/>\nSilk porous unbearable hot dusk broken by the murmur. His car engine runs like open<br \/>\nWater,<em> I\u2019m stuffed<\/em> he says, groping loosely his stomach. <em>Thanks for dinner <\/em>she says.<br \/>\n<em>It was really liberating,<\/em> he smiles, daylight but a moon is dropped like a low pearl open<br \/>\nScent of shoals and evenings. A telephone pole dominates the raw blue. His hands<br \/>\nBrush her face. Chest pulses. His mouth is warm like gasoline and wood. Sitting in a<br \/>\nRoom of his own. Her fabrics blush against the wounded seats. Underneath the skin<br \/>\nIs bare. Wordless or dumb. The man in the red sweet car. His eyes spindle at<br \/>\nVarious attentions. Goodnight. Shut door. Evening is spilled onto the woman\u2019s<br \/>\nBedroom window like a milk. Clutch her pillow, her head rattles like a fecund car<br \/>\nEngine. The man\u2019s face bounces across her soft canals. Her face trembles. She<br \/>\nRuns to the sink. In the mirror her face is hell. A water. Don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanessa Saunders<\/strong> is the editor-in-chief of <em>Helium Journal<\/em>. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is currently an MFA candidate at LSU. She has previously been published in <em>Stockholm Literary Review, Lighthouse journal, Haight Ashbury Literary,<\/em> and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is not sliding off a cliff stepping into the man\u2019s red car. She is not falling like a Silk porous unbearable hot dusk broken by the murmur. His car engine runs like open Water, I\u2019m stuffed he says, groping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[21987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}