{"id":210,"date":"2021-04-12T19:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2021-05-01T03:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T03:14:36","slug":"spring-cleaning-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/spring-cleaning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"spring cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Maria Purpura<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sun-beam butter eyes\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and a grin\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only for the peeling pears and grapes\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on the wallpaper\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hold you oh, so close<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">biting back my dimples from afar<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want a roadmap of every place you\u2019ve felt loved\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your arm steadies\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but everything else is<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">vibrating and numb all at once<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">your stability is the only frequency<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when everything else\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fades to loud<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">silence<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I know\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve only seen one you<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There in my victories like molasses<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stuck<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like sweet cement on slow mornings<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a bellied giggle in the wrong moment<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These years of ours are ethereal, soft<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">blue-skied, cool grass you can inhale,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and feel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but never touch;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">too fragile even to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reach<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">better to admire\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0at arm&#8217;s-length<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even when finality saddens you<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you\u2019re here too, stay<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as loving\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as the sun, in her goodness<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You, too, are good to dwell in<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Purpura &nbsp; Sun-beam butter eyes\u00a0 and a grin\u00a0 only for the peeling pears and grapes\u00a0 on the wallpaper\u00a0 To hold you oh, so close biting back my dimples from afar I want a roadmap of every place you\u2019ve felt loved\u00a0 &nbsp; Your arm steadies\u00a0 but everything else is vibrating and numb all at once&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/spring-cleaning-2\/\">Continue Reading spring cleaning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}