until sun glints the dark water of my eyes \/ you crave the touch of hair growing softly between<\/p>\n\n\n\n
who\nare these normal people who live inside love songs \/ red hair white girls in\nblue dresses sharing park benches with tall boys whose long limbs graze through\nthe air like wings \/ that\u2019s nice <\/p>\n\n\n\n
today\nI will manifest your fingers around my throat \/ & remind you of a woman who\nonce loved <\/p>\n\n\n\n
there\nare things you should know about my capacity for life-ruining \/ watch me \/ I\u2019ll\nfinger my own flesh-center \/ my cunt-heart ravenous \/ sprouts violets \/ &\nblooms the scent of your hometown burning \/ its never\neasy building fire from bone-kindling \/ I\u2019m not ashamed \/ today I manifest your\nhands belong to me \/ collapsed play things \/ I tell them stories like I want\nthem to believe <\/p>\n\n\n\n
it\nis American to dream \/ for some it comes easy \/ blue hair girls with red-eyed\nboys \/ everybody has a story that\u2019ll stop your tongue from beating \/ everybody\nwants to be seen trying \/ but today I remind you of the only woman who ever\nloved you \/ & manifest that every passing storm is a hurricane \/ & bury\nthe bodies of earthlings too joyful to run from all the screaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lena Ziegler<\/strong> is the author of MASH <\/em>(The A3 Press) and editor and co-founder of The Hunger<\/em>. She was a finalist in the Autumn House Press 2018 Fiction contest and the 2017 Goldline Press Non-fiction contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Split Lip Magazine, Dream Pop Press, Yes, Poetry, The Seventh Wave, Gambling the Aisle, Literary Orphans, The Flexible Persona, Anti-Heroin Chic, <\/em>and others. She holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University and is pursuing her PhD at Bowling Green State University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" until sun glints the dark water of my eyes \/ you crave the touch of hair growing softly between who are these normal people who live inside love songs \/ red hair white girls in blue dresses sharing park benches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}