When you look at me
\ndo you see crafty or something more
\nleviathan?<\/p>\n
I swear my veins aren\u2019t filled with sand,
\nblood does not become me.
\nOne spark of my wit could lift <\/p>\n
a cart of gold, my hair
\nhangs opium,
\nand I need the battlefield\u2014
\nhow can I explain?
\nListen. I am weaving a rug of sunsets <\/p>\n
whose fibers won\u2019t ever
\nsplit. My soldier looked so soft
\nin the mud.<\/p>\n
They say I am too beautiful to be touched.
\nMy fingers touch needles <\/p>\n
and bleed.
\nThus, I am eruption, and afterwards,
\nash descending, a daylight,
\na haze, floating.<\/p>\n
I am the one mothers pray to. When you look at me do you see crafty or something more leviathan? I swear my veins aren\u2019t filled with sand, blood does not become me. One spark of my wit could lift a cart of gold, my hair hangs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22064],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Kate Martin Rowe\u2019<\/strong>s poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, California Quarterly, Eclipse <\/em>and the online journals Chaparral<\/em> and Prick of the Spindle<\/em> among others. She teaches composition at LA City College and Glendale Community College and lives in Eagle Rock with her husband and two very lazy cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"