{"id":6091,"date":"2026-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:51:59","slug":"not-even-a-wrist-of-flesh-and-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/not-even-a-wrist-of-flesh-and-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Even a Wrist of Flesh and Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The girl got him a bracelet<br>for his right arm, already holding <br>twelve bangles of silver and of gold.  <br><br>He never wore it, said, instead,<br>each circle had to come to him <br>by chance:<br><br>the Middle Eastern deli counter man<br>who\u2019d given him the middle one,<br>the New York psychic\u2014grabbed his arm<br><br>and told him to beware.<br>They couldn\u2019t just be gifts, what with<br>their implications of enclosure, continuation.<br><br>And so, the brass loop was stashed in his backpack,<br>the same one he would drop first on her floor.<br> She never saw what else might be inside<br><br>but wondered if, like the circle, <br>known by many as a magical space,<br>it held nothing in its center <br>but air.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl got him a braceletfor his right arm, already holding twelve bangles of silver and of gold. He never wore it, said, instead,each circle had to come to him by chance:the Middle Eastern deli counter manwho\u2019d given him the middle one,the New York psychic\u2014grabbed his armand told him to beware.They couldn\u2019t just be gifts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[479],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-gribben-bryn"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2025-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}