{"id":82,"date":"2011-07-01T00:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:02","slug":"a-house-which-is-a-kind-of-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2011\/07\/01\/a-house-which-is-a-kind-of-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"A House Which is a Kind of Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proliferation of s’s <\/em>in your words make me jittery,
\nwhich is to say, there are worse things than this weather.
\nMe, I’ve been hiding objects in my mattress
\ninstead of burning them. Tiny glass kittens, dirty dishes.
\nWriting love letters and stuffing it to the seams.
\nDarling, I’m so dry these days I could turn to sand,
\nbut I have a plan, which is a sort of cartography
\nof the interior, four chambered and subject
\nto faulty wires. A finger tapping at the breastbone
\nwhile I sleep. A kind of etymology, bluegill <\/em>
\ninstead of pulse, shimmer<\/em> instead of breath. <\/em>
\nIt\u2019s watery recess.
\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I do this thing where I say
\nI love you,<\/em> but it’s more like a latch,
\na finger movement, something I’ve tricked
\ninto happening. Or a hotel pool
\nI’ve been crashing for years. I slather myself in lotion
\nwatch a movie where a woman with tiny birds
\non her dress stops talking, walks across the room.
\nThis is always happening, then happening again.
\nLike an eclipse, or dark spot in my vision.
\nShe stops eating and shines so bright
\nit’s intoxicating, which is to say, it’s terrifying.




\nA writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen<\/strong> is the author of several book and chapbook projects, including brief history of girl as match, in the bird museum<\/em> and the fever almanac.<\/em> She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio, an indie press and design studio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The proliferation of s’s in your words make me jittery, which is to say, there are worse things than this weather. Me, I’ve been hiding objects in my mattress instead of burning them. Tiny glass kittens, dirty dishes. Writing love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}