{"id":241,"date":"2020-11-18T01:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T01:19:53","slug":"muses-for-kebret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/muses-for-kebret\/","title":{"rendered":"Muses for Kebret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Muses for<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Kebret<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">In the sharp polarized light,\u00a0<br>an old friend\u00a0whispers,\u00a0<br><em>two red-haired monsters\u00a0sit at<\/em>\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">                              <em>  the far end of the bed,<\/em>\u00a0<br>you peer around; your breath\u00a0<br>denies calm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman in your ward\u00a0<br>is a torture;\u00a0<br>she walks in\u00a0\u00a0<br>on a head,\u00a0<br>two legs sticking up in the air\u2014\u00a0you\u00a0<br>watch in the spirit\u00a0<br>of windmills and giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You wonder why\u00a0\u00a0<br>things get so dangerous;\u00a0<br>a pile of grey clouds\u00a0<br>rumbles at the floor of your head.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night you sat up\u00a0<br>to yell at a female\u00a0\u00a0<br>devil that wears\u00a0<br>a bold moustache,\u00a0<br>no wonder a sea of slim devils came\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">peeling off your skin\u00a0<br>with their wiry tails.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, darkness\u00a0\u00a0<br>looms in the room, packed masses\u00a0\u00a0<br>roll,\u00a0fill the earth and flatten your body.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman in white,\u00a0\u00a0<br>though dangerous, runs in for rescue,\u00a0<br>but you can\u2019t leave\u00a0<br>things this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note<\/strong>: this piece on trauma\/hallucination was inspired by a page in&nbsp;Sahle&nbsp;Sellassie\u2019s&nbsp;Firebrands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMuses for&nbsp;Kebret&nbsp; In the sharp polarized light,\u00a0an old friend\u00a0whispers,\u00a0two red-haired monsters\u00a0sit at\u00a0 the far end of the bed,\u00a0you peer around; your breath\u00a0denies calm.\u00a0 The woman in your ward\u00a0is a torture;\u00a0she walks in\u00a0\u00a0on a head,\u00a0two legs sticking up in the air\u2014\u00a0you\u00a0watch&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/muses-for-kebret\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Muses for Kebret&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-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/371"}],"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=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}