She held my hand when the storms came
\nShe broke Black Boys by the jaw
\nKissed them by the bullets
\nHer foundation can’t cover her pores
\nHer tears salt lakes
\nshe\u00a0don\u2019 chewed attitude into a pit
\nShe washes her face in crimson
\nShe cooked up concoctions
\nMild enough to live thru 18 or 21
\nBut sometimes her babies are immune<\/p>\n
She use tombstones as nail filers
\nShe toot that powdered snow out her nose
\nHer heart look like a waste land
\nCuz\u00a0ain’t\u00a0no rhythm a bucket boy could beat to revive her
\nHer\u00a0body a series of broken sidewalks
\nher hips a hashed division of lines and intersections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Naudia Williams She held my hand when the storms came She broke Black Boys by the jaw Kissed them by the bullets Her foundation can’t cover her pores Her tears salt lakes she\u00a0don\u2019 chewed attitude into a pit She washes her face in crimson She cooked up concoctions Mild enough to live thru 18 or… Continue Reading A love poem to windy (Chicago)<\/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-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}