{"id":213,"date":"2020-11-18T01:07:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2020-11-20T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:23:12","slug":"pink-peach-pools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/pink-peach-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"PINK PEACH POOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>PINK PEACH POOLS<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the sun boils my skin,\u00a0<br>melts it off my milky bones into\u202f\u00a0<br>pink peach pools beneath the\u202f\u00a0<br>the cheap turquoise sun chair\u00a0i\u00a0lay on.\u202f\u00a0<br>i\u00a0watch the sky through\u202f\u00a0<br>the black pits of my eyes,\u202f\u00a0<br>the symphony of swirling strata-clouds playing\u202f\u00a0<br>catch up with the\u00a0solar-beams\u202f\u00a0<br>until finally, the earth cools.\u202f\u00a0<br>then the water comes.\u202f\u00a0<br>the\u00a0<em>pit-pat-echoes\u00a0<\/em>hit\u00a0<br>the tops of the trees\u00a0with anticipation\u00a0before reaching me,\u202f\u00a0<br>sizzling\u00a0when\u00a0they ease my scorched skeleton\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0<br>fill the chasms of my skull.\u00a0<br>then,\u00a0<br>just\u00a0as\u00a0i\u00a0am about to leave my twisted paradise\u202f\u00a0<br>a brown-sugar bird\u00a0flits\u00a0down into the\u00a0<br>empty sockets of my eyes.\u00a0<br>his tender little wings tickle my heart\u202f\u00a0<br>as he washes himself in my velvety soul.\u202f\u00a0<br>when he leaves,\u202f\u00a0<br>a part of me flies with him.\u202f\u00a0<br>i\u00a0sit up then, water clinging to\u202f\u00a0<br>my fresh lashes.\u202f\u00a0<br>i\u00a0take my fingers,\u202f\u00a0<br>trace the plains of my cheeks, my chest, the soft folds of my tummy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my body is covered in new wild-strawberry-fleshed skin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nPINK PEACH POOLS&nbsp; the sun boils my skin,\u00a0melts it off my milky bones into\u202f\u00a0pink peach pools beneath the\u202f\u00a0the cheap turquoise sun chair\u00a0i\u00a0lay on.\u202f\u00a0i\u00a0watch the sky through\u202f\u00a0the black pits of my eyes,\u202f\u00a0the symphony of swirling strata-clouds playing\u202f\u00a0catch up with the\u00a0solar-beams\u202f\u00a0until finally,&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/pink-peach-pools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;PINK PEACH POOLS&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}