{"id":381,"date":"2021-04-14T03:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:05:14","slug":"colors-scheme-and-orchestrate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/colors-scheme-and-orchestrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors Scheme and Orchestrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dan Raphael<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i wonder if the colors i see out my window\u2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">orange green grass, damp asphalt, silver cars<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that seldom move\u2014are the colors inside me<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">which immediately change when flesh is opened,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">air admitted, any light stronger than what<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">skin can filter, the blood in its vacuum sluices,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">nerves aspark like distant lightning in a sky<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">worn through in spots we usually call stars<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when they\u2019re scars or abrasions, preventative thickening<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as i\u2019m constantly among blunt objects and gravity<\/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\">in the other half of my house who is someone else<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lights come on before eyes open, water is released<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">before anything comes in, can take hours for breakfast<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to reveal itself, alert for the chance of protein<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and other species, the pong of the pre-dawn sweat<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of unwanted visitors, unwanted instructions i could follow<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">without realizing, cause habit almost never jumps the tracks<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">just sometimes takes a siding it\u2019s passed thousands of times<\/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\">a different day every 3 to 5 hours, minimum daily requirements<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of inertia, repair, behavioral cul-de-sacs, spoonfuls of<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">invention and light, a pinch of dried future, a breath<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as long as a pop song with no time for anyone to solo,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">stretch my fingers, tap my toes, i\u2019m an asteroid<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of corduroy and wool, 2 meters that was never prairie<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or woods, this water not from the sky or plumbing<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but my own distillation, steamed by the sun and<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">anything inside me ready to burn today<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Raphael &nbsp; i wonder if the colors i see out my window\u2014 orange green grass, damp asphalt, silver cars that seldom move\u2014are the colors inside me which immediately change when flesh is opened, air admitted, any light stronger than what skin can filter, the blood in its vacuum sluices, nerves aspark like distant lightning&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/colors-scheme-and-orchestrate\/\">Continue Reading Colors Scheme and Orchestrate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}