{"id":290,"date":"2024-04-26T04:18:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:55:10","slug":"the-wolf-who-speaks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/the-wolf-who-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf Who Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The damndest asset of a wolf speaks for itself<br \/>\nBenign its coating<br \/>\nFor though he waits in suit<br \/>\nTis it\u2019s mouth, it has been spoken<br \/>\nBy itself it\u2019s surely true<br \/>\nTis his mouth from which collard bonds are broken<br \/>\nOr perhaps fulfilled within revue<br \/>\nThe fangs bear the brunt of a brundle from its victims,<br \/>\nfailing to see the faded streaks of red in the maw,<br \/>\nbundled anxieties and the fear of the fall<br \/>\nthe ruffled brindle of fur matted behind your fear in his eyes<br \/>\nBut even the blind have ears to hear his lies<br \/>\nDo not let him close to you<br \/>\nAye, a tongue the wolf does speak<br \/>\nBelieve it true<br \/>\nThe wastes of lives unlived flash in time unloved by the man they were sworn to and to adore<br \/>\nPortrait frames break<br \/>\nWhen fangs siphons from you love<br \/>\nAnd jaws open the floodgates as tears from memories betrayed meld with blood<br \/>\nHis tongue was not made to be construed<br \/>\nHe speaks in falsities all leading to the entrance where he raps, a door only you can unlatch<br \/>\nHolding hands all the way, alone<br \/>\nEither in palms, on faces against walls, against knives that fall and streak the paint<br \/>\nThe pain you feel as he melts your meaning of a home<br \/>\nThe tongue constricts<br \/>\nIt squeezes<br \/>\nIt blinds<br \/>\nAnd reveals only the truth<br \/>\nWhen hope is left behind<br \/>\nBeware the wolf<br \/>\nDo not seek him out<br \/>\nDo not ponder him and fret<br \/>\nHe will find himself in your doubts<br \/>\nBeware Bisclavret<br \/>\nThe teeth only sink till it\u2019s finished<br \/>\nAnd leave scars in the wake of his kiss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The damndest asset of a wolf speaks for itself Benign its coating For though he waits in suit Tis it\u2019s mouth, it has been spoken By itself it\u2019s surely true Tis his mouth from which collard bonds are broken Or perhaps fulfilled within revue The fangs bear the brunt of a brundle from its victims,&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/the-wolf-who-speaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wolf Who Speaks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/425"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}