{"id":4545,"date":"2024-04-18T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2024-05-01T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:44:28","slug":"alone-w-some-grackle-starling-or-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/alone-w-some-grackle-starling-or-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone w\/ Some Grackle, Starling or Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"--ek-indent:120px\" class=\"has-ek-indent\"><em>mimicking tongue, parodying \/ the world \u2013 Edwards<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bird strange within the walls of my chest<br>is caught, who being hurt takes cruel delight<br>in humiliating me. Having learned a few<br>words, scant and hurtful, it mutters these,<br>mutters from the stone it sits upon in<br>the deep trap of my sinew-bound chest.<br>The scrape inside me, its wing against bone,<br>is ceaseless; its indistinct voice, constant.<br>What the harsh bird says I can&#8217;t make out through<br>the muffling walls of its unlit cell; hence<br>if there&#8217;s justice in its abuse of me,<br>if I&#8217;ve had it coming, I cannot tell.<br>If ever someone was close to me who could<br>interpret (or calm) its song, they&#8217;ve gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Epigraph from Rhian Edwards\u2019 poem &#8220;The Birds of Rhiannon&#8221;, from the pamphlet Brood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><canvas width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\"><\/canvas><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mimicking tongue, parodying \/ the world \u2013 Edwards A bird strange within the walls of my chestis caught, who being hurt takes cruel delightin humiliating me. Having learned a fewwords, scant and hurtful, it mutters these,mutters from the stone it sits upon inthe deep trap of my sinew-bound chest.The scrape inside me, its wing against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":4701,"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":[344],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-bos-zachary"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/areilly_scratch2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}