{"id":235,"date":"2020-11-18T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:01:03","slug":"the-first-song-of-a-recluse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-first-song-of-a-recluse\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Song of a Recluse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The First Song of a Recluse<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You speak in such\u00a0<br>foreign tongue that I get\u00a0<br>drowned\u00a0\u00a0<br>just beneath the tip\u00a0<br>of your\u00a0last word.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night I sat by the seashore,\u00a0<br>swooned by the hush of water\u00a0<br>slipping off\u00a0<br>the floor of the sea.\u00a0<br>Do you snuggle\u00a0your\u00a0breath\u00a0<br>to little things\u00a0<br>when your heart slogs around?\u00a0<br>I leave with the thickness\u00a0\u00a0<br>of your face filming\u00a0<br>behind my eyes,\u00a0<br>the rum for next morning\u2019s whisper.\u00a0<br>I go with your words spreading\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">too wide and not eating into meaning.\u00a0<br>I pile them on the palm of my thoughts.\u00a0<br>I peel them apart and show\u00a0\u00a0<br>them to the sun\u00a0<br>peering headlong through the frosted\u00a0<br>glass of my window.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would nuzzle my nose\u00a0<br>in the air to gasp for Echo\u2019s\u00a0<br>breath, to reverberate these last\u00a0<br>words stiff with puzzle.\u00a0<br>I\u2019m in no hovel, my skin\u00a0<br>has known no decay, no wife\u00a0<br>of a god.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let the sun uncurl\u00a0<br>a full wrap of grief\u00a0<br>hidden at the back of your tongue\u00a0<br>when you whisper,\u00a0<em>all is okay<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let the echo of your furled\u00a0<br>kvetch never wait to get to the far\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 corner\u00a0\u00a0<br>of our lone nights\u00a0<br>where we sidle to escape\u00a0\u00a0<br>terror\u00a0\u00a0<br>forged by society.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe First Song of a Recluse&nbsp; You speak in such\u00a0foreign tongue that I get\u00a0drowned\u00a0\u00a0just beneath the tip\u00a0of your\u00a0last word.\u00a0 Last night I sat by the seashore,\u00a0swooned by the hush of water\u00a0slipping off\u00a0the floor of the sea.\u00a0Do you snuggle\u00a0your\u00a0breath\u00a0to little things\u00a0when&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-first-song-of-a-recluse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The First Song of a Recluse&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-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions\/367"}],"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=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}