{"id":261,"date":"2018-11-29T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/14-1\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2018-12-06T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:38:57","slug":"and-delilah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/and-delilah\/","title":{"rendered":"and Delilah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left\">Alexandra Daggett\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bq88zJVBILN\/\">(Bio)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>the body recalls<br \/>\ncollision the mind cannot;<br \/>\nbramble and brush exist in trauma,<br \/>\non the skin,\u00a0and<br \/>\ndissonance<\/p>\n<p>between tongues<\/p>\n<p>he does not<br \/>\ndeserve.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember you,<br \/>\nhere,<\/p>\n<p>there is betrayal<br \/>\nthat night\u2014<\/p>\n<p>a new covenant<br \/>\nas my hands connect every<br \/>\nconstellation<br \/>\ndescending over<br \/>\nwatercolor crests of rose dust,<\/p>\n<p>sipping from terracotta<br \/>\nacross your forehead,<\/p>\n<p>dewdrops of<br \/>\nvalleys,<br \/>\nsweat,\u00a0fall\u00a0sour<br \/>\non my lips like<br \/>\nnectar,<\/p>\n<p>gingerly<br \/>\nbut inexorably<br \/>\ncradling<br \/>\nyour\u00a0each exhalation<br \/>\n(the absence of silence)<br \/>\nlike splintered glass\u2014<\/p>\n<p>my mouth tastes<br \/>\nfloral<br \/>\nin the morning,<\/p>\n<p>candied addiction<br \/>\nmatched in jade pools,<br \/>\nyour mouth at my throat<br \/>\nslurring<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0again<\/i><\/p>\n<p>sticky, slow,<br \/>\nlike honeycomb,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">there is so much movement<br \/>\nin you, dear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0I\u2019m murmuring<\/p>\n<p><i>some women deserve<br \/>\n<\/i><i>to be loved<br \/>\n<\/i><i>so much more<br \/>\n<\/i><i>than men are capable of<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Daggett\u00a0(Bio) the body recalls collision the mind cannot; bramble and brush exist in trauma, on the skin,\u00a0and dissonance between tongues he does not deserve. I can remember you, here, there is betrayal that night\u2014 a new covenant as my hands connect every constellation descending over watercolor crests of rose dust, sipping from terracotta across&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/and-delilah\/\">Continue Reading and Delilah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}