{"id":501,"date":"2022-04-15T22:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2022-04-29T06:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T06:38:55","slug":"beauty-in-the-foothills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/beauty-in-the-foothills\/","title":{"rendered":"beauty in the foothills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Michaela Shroeder<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">beauty in the foothills of existence, where lies my rotting body?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">stuffed full of sin, shame, and ignominy, open wounds fester, the gruesome sight covered in a field of beguiling red roses within this expansive and mendacious meadow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from the moment<br \/>\nthose intoxicating fingers<br \/>\ngrazed my obsessive body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I found myself rotting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nsuffocating on endless shame<br \/>\nguilty of sorrows brought<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sentenced to lay,<br \/>\nmy obsessive skin decaying<br \/>\nnext to your pervasive,<br \/>\nintoxicating body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">beauty in the foothills of eternity, who wrote my elegy? who, in this darkest night, came forth to my funeral, found a piece missing, and used their sacrifice to atone for me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cDearly Beloved, we are gathered here today\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">no, I must be misremembering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">how might they begin<br \/>\ncommemorating me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">heaving out,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201chow long lived she,<br \/>\nin that aching body?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">penance in the rose field of coddling, as I prop that inescapable body atop my own rotting. where hide you, eternity? blessed Mary, I should\u2019ve found you in sanctity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God, where is your grace?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">we <em>all<\/em> make a choice<br \/>\nmine jeering<br \/>\n\u201c<em>this<\/em> is eternity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">clinging as my body rots<br \/>\nobsessiveness melts off skin<br \/>\npermeating into disintegrating bones<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">call it predestined<br \/>\ndo you believe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am her; she is me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">in the name of whatever may exist, amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Shroeder beauty in the foothills of existence, where lies my rotting body? stuffed full of sin, shame, and ignominy, open wounds fester, the gruesome sight covered in a field of beguiling red roses within this expansive and mendacious meadow. from the moment those intoxicating fingers grazed my obsessive body I found myself rotting suffocating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/654"}],"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=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}