{"id":261,"date":"2020-04-30T02:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:07:07","slug":"mid-air","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>J. Randall Brett<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will want to catch her mid-air. At least break her fall after she sews all the little silk circles together, knots in shroud lines, and tries jumping off the barn roof. She had stolen a few of the tiny parachutes she packed into bombs every day out at Pueblo Field. With her brothers flying by the light of their own flames over Tokyo&#8217;s docks, she felt she had a calling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or when she was younger, angry that they wouldn\u2019t let a girl go hunting, she saved her penny candy money to buy bullets. You will want to tip their trajectories away mid-flight, when she used the neighbor\u2019s turkeys for target practice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will want to spare the lift of her hand to her mouth, because roasting a bullfrog over a campfire is not the best way to find out why the French eat&nbsp;<em>les&nbsp;<\/em><em>grenouilles<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because when you are her very spit and image, what is true for her is true for you.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much that when you are a teenager, those brothers&nbsp;must&nbsp;leave the room when you walk in, unable to bear the grief from the sight of their loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because you have eaten bullfrog.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because you love the smell of cordite.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because your own grief needs a parachute&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for every tall building you enter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by J. Randall Brett You will want to catch her mid-air. At least break her fall after she sews all the little silk circles together, knots in shroud lines, and tries jumping off the barn roof. She had stolen a few of the tiny parachutes she packed into bombs every day out at Pueblo Field.&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/mid-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-Air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-261","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}