{"id":4526,"date":"2024-04-09T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2024-05-01T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:40:28","slug":"27-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/27-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The air on the plane is dry<br>I sip stale coffee<br>from a paper cup<br><em>Your hands look old<\/em><br>my daughter says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Abuela left Cuba in a plane<br>to marry her love in New Orleans.<br><em>These hands will never wash<br>or dust or cook<\/em>, he told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Years of bleach and Palmolive<br>left delicate lines and folds<br>papered across the whorls of her knuckles,<br>the backs of her sun-mottled hands.<br>Her nails were always tapered, polished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>In Cuba, we had evenings<br>to dance in our frills<br>the band played so late<br>we walked<br>beautiful ladies waved<br>from their balconies<br>to their novios below.<br>We had a finca<br>I remember the chickens<br>It was so hot I thought I\u2019d help<br>I plucked one live to cool her off<br>qu\u00e9 pecado<br>She died<br>I remember our cook\u2019s bu\u00f1uelos<br>tan rico<br>sweet anise syrup dripping<br>and always a cafecito<br>Mama sent me to art school<br>Did you know that a frog has 50 bones?<br>I had to draw them all by memory<\/em><br><em>And sab\u00edas que a hand has 27? <\/em><br><br>I don\u2019t know what else<br>she drew<br>I can\u2019t ask anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><canvas width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\"><\/canvas><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air on the plane is dryI sip stale coffeefrom a paper cupYour hands look oldmy daughter says. Abuela left Cuba in a planeto marry her love in New Orleans.These hands will never washor dust or cook, he told her. Years of bleach and Palmoliveleft delicate lines and foldspapered across the whorls of her knuckles,the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[342],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-ferrell-catherine"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oil-Polychromatic-Orange-Revolution-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}