{"id":414,"date":"2023-12-08T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=414"},"modified":"2023-12-08T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:01:06","slug":"of-his-lips-ive-tasted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/of-his-lips-ive-tasted\/","title":{"rendered":"Of his lips I&#8217;ve tasted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Nicholaus Albrecht<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Of his lips I\u2019ve tasted \u2013 I hollow at the bone,<\/p>\n<p>dig my claws his shoulders as he gluts himself my throat.<\/p>\n<p>I search for him in nothing, the static soft-swept space<\/p>\n<p>left wanting foul of flesh and bone to taste.<\/p>\n<p>My ear begets his whisper, skin trembles at his quake.<\/p>\n<p>He moves,<\/p>\n<p>I wake.<\/p>\n<p>He disappears with haste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no warmth to mark his passing, I ache<\/p>\n<p>in treble beats his memory to trace<\/p>\n<p>with fingers. Lies no ring nor promise to devote,<\/p>\n<p>Just hunger, just need \u2013 desired and bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s fullness in starvation, nourished blood runs clean,<\/p>\n<p>incomplete and blistersweet\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholaus Albrecht Of his lips I\u2019ve tasted \u2013 I hollow at the bone, dig my claws his shoulders as he gluts himself my throat. I search for him in nothing, the static soft-swept space left wanting foul of flesh and bone to taste. My ear begets his whisper, skin trembles at his quake. He moves, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/of-his-lips-ive-tasted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of his lips I&#8217;ve tasted&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}