I\u2019ve colonized your outer planets
\ndeliberately<\/p>\n
with grand expressions
\nand dark portals of insanity.<\/p>\n
Mercifully, April prays uncontained
\nas the sun falls distinctly<\/p>\n
in tremulous waves below the horizon
\nand your discrete aspects are revealed;<\/p>\n
lithe hills of ebony, chiseled wings,
\nand weeping telescopes of imperfection.<\/p>\n
You were the dirty child
\nwandering the boneyards of dead streets,<\/p>\n
a shredded web of emptiness
\ngenerating the machinery of thought,<\/p>\n
clutching fractions
\nas if they were flyaway moons<\/p>\n
and given all that we\u2019ve been
\nhow can you say you\u2019ll never cavort again<\/p>\n
gathering figs around
\nthis silent exultation of earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard King Perkins II I\u2019ve colonized your outer planets deliberately with grand expressions and dark portals of insanity. Mercifully, April prays uncontained as the sun falls distinctly in tremulous waves below the horizon and your discrete aspects are revealed; lithe hills of ebony, chiseled wings, and weeping telescopes of imperfection. You were the dirty child Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/13-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}