Scentless lotions on cellulite thighs\u2014
inherited habit. Customed other mothers and
learned movie motions don\u2019t smell,
like him, becoming sterile, sweaty,
and writhing; his fume\u2019s religious.
Formaldehyde.
Pickled mementos stored on a hinge,
clutching a fistful of her when and why. He
could not bear to keep the list.
To clean:
The old frames,
imposing oak desks,
and then, cracks, nooks, and crannies.
There\u2019s no unwilling
the impulse to neutralize.
Somewhere, between blank taste
and sudsy fingernails, he\u2019s
shadowed, pursuing with the last light
a circular rubbing so fervent; bleaching
On On and On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scentless lotions on cellulite thighs\u2014inherited habit. Customed other mothers andlearned movie motions don\u2019t smell,like him, becoming sterile, sweaty,and writhing; his fume\u2019s religious.Formaldehyde.Pickled mementos stored on a hinge,clutching a fistful of her when and why. Hecould not bear to keep the list.To clean: The old frames, imposing oak desks, and then, cracks, nooks, and crannies.There\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4698,"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":[349],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-leslie-liam"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/areilly_abstract3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}