{"id":330,"date":"2020-04-30T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:25:17","slug":"mouth-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/mouth-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouth Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Anna Heiar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You mouth speaker,\u00a0<br>reciting to me\u00a0<br>words that have been shoved\u00a0\u00a0<br>down your throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you think it\u2019s true?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That writing your feelings\u00a0<br>will get you nowhere?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You mouth speaker,\u00a0\u00a0<br>can\u2019t you see the world\u00a0\u00a0<br>as I do?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beginning of a novel\u00a0<br>glancing at those passing by.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The spark of a thought staring\u00a0<br>at blue buds decorating greenery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The emotion that seeps from\u00a0<br>my fingertips to my pencil as\u00a0\u00a0<br>I develop my characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mouth speaker, you call\u00a0<br>me strange and peculiar,\u00a0<br>but those are also memorized\u00a0<br>lines from old nursery rhymes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mouth speaker, what I am is a\u00a0\u00a0<br>writer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My pages exhale with life,\u00a0<br>their fumes provoking deep\u00a0<br>human emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My stories hold scraps of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my flesh, hidden behind\u00a0\u00a0<br>my\u00a0characters\u00a0lives.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I speak best with\u00a0\u00a0<br>a pen in hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, mouth speaker,\u00a0\u00a0<br>that is who I truly am.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anna Heiar You mouth speaker,\u00a0reciting to me\u00a0words that have been shoved\u00a0\u00a0down your throat.\u00a0 Do you think it\u2019s true?&nbsp; That writing your feelings\u00a0will get you nowhere?\u00a0\u00a0 You mouth speaker,\u00a0\u00a0can\u2019t you see the world\u00a0\u00a0as I do?\u00a0 The beginning of a novel\u00a0glancing at those passing by.\u00a0 The spark of a thought staring\u00a0at blue buds decorating greenery.\u00a0 The&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/mouth-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mouth Speaker<\/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-330","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"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=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}