{"id":72,"date":"2019-04-09T00:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/14-2\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:32:09","slug":"if-we-flossed-in-vowels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/if-we-flossed-in-vowels\/","title":{"rendered":"If we flossed in vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Kara Kirkus<\/h4>\n<div>How often do you slip letters across thread and<\/div>\n<div>weave them between your teeth? Sometimes I skip<\/div>\n<div>post-dinner because that\u2019s when the graphite snaps from<\/div>\n<div>my tongue and I swallow lead instead&#8211; then I\u2019m<\/div>\n<div>polluted till the window-lamps contouring the court tremble dark, till<\/div>\n<div>streetlamps perch sentinel. That\u2019s<\/div>\n<div>when I clip eight inches of frayed string,<\/div>\n<div>garnish it with twenty-six symbols in permutations<\/div>\n<div>approaching infinity, though approaching is never<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sufficient because I\u2019m always searching,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 still, just before the sentinels swap again, before east and west<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 swap again and still<\/div>\n<div>I\u2019m searching<\/div>\n<div>for another combination of symbols<\/div>\n<div>because approaching infinity leaves only a finite<\/div>\n<div>quantity for expression.<\/div>\n<div>And I can\u2019t ever complete construction, so the symbols<\/div>\n<div>I\u2019ve arranged into patterns tumble from thread as it strangles<\/div>\n<div>enamel and maybe that\u2019s<\/div>\n<div>why they don\u2019t believe I clean between my incisors.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara Kirkus How often do you slip letters across thread and weave them between your teeth? Sometimes I skip post-dinner because that\u2019s when the graphite snaps from my tongue and I swallow lead instead&#8211; then I\u2019m polluted till the window-lamps contouring the court tremble dark, till streetlamps perch sentinel. That\u2019s when I clip eight inches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}