{"id":362,"date":"2022-04-08T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:19:50","slug":"it-writes-me-letters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/it-writes-me-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"It Writes Me Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Emma Zozzaro<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Death<\/p>\n<p>Is my distant admirer<\/p>\n<p>It writes me flowery letters<\/p>\n<p>Full of love and sweet-talk<\/p>\n<p>And thin, curling, pointed words<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in that mischievous way It has<\/p>\n<p>Sends them in the form of<\/p>\n<p>Small birds\u2019 pretty voices<\/p>\n<p>Bright and clear as the sound of breaking glass<\/p>\n<p>Cutting through my sleep in the morning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in profuse light thick and warm and alive as blood<\/p>\n<p>Flooding in to suffocate my dreams and<\/p>\n<p>Opening my eyes like a new rose<\/p>\n<p>It sends them as charming smells<\/p>\n<p>That bloom in my path<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And cause me to draw in an especially<\/p>\n<p>Full breath<\/p>\n<p>Then emptying my lungs<\/p>\n<p>So I can fill them again<\/p>\n<p>Death says funny things<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And strangers laugh until the<\/p>\n<p>Current of joy carries my smile along with it<\/p>\n<p>It sends me little bits of green along my walks<\/p>\n<p>Reminding me always of It\u2019s absence and longing<\/p>\n<p>For the day we can be together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And It can finally be comforted by my soft, cold embrace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Zozzaro &nbsp; Death Is my distant admirer It writes me flowery letters Full of love and sweet-talk And thin, curling, pointed words &nbsp; And in that mischievous way It has Sends them in the form of Small birds\u2019 pretty voices Bright and clear as the sound of breaking glass Cutting through my sleep in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/364"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}