{"id":291,"date":"2025-04-23T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:15:09","slug":"the-art-of-making-a-bed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/the-art-of-making-a-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Making a Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jack Scholtes<\/span><\/p>\n

Enclosed in a form so familiar, with someone new\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not new like I haven\u2019t met her, I feel like I\u2019ve known her for a long time\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond seeing her hand raise tall to speak about things I can\u2019t relate to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After just over a month, her bed felt like more of a home than I could ever live in\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My shoulder gave out the first night, and the night after\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My hand went numb from how I lay, but that was nothing to me\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow, the first night I knew love, and I knew its name\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first night I knew I would soon be captive by her grasp\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each time I awake in that tower, that place of heaven\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I take those sheets that held us, I arrange them how she likes them,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I fluff the pillows so she doesn\u2019t lay on flat cloth, so her shoulders don\u2019t give out\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Something I should tell her, from my lips, is that I\u2019ll take that pain for her\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The stories she\u2019s told others about me are ones that I wouldn\u2019t imagine to be spoken\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel as though she speaks so highly of me, but she deserves much, much more\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My admiration for her will forever beat any feeling of doubt or second-guesses\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The trust I said I loaned her was not meant to be taken back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels like just yesterday, but also years ago, when I last laid next to her\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at her face while she dozes off, and trying to imagine a more comfortable space\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think for about five seconds, and five seconds go by and I give up,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking back and ahead,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like we could dream of each other through everything, every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jack Scholtes Enclosed in a form so familiar, with someone new\u00a0 Not new like I haven\u2019t met her, I feel like I\u2019ve known her for a long time\u00a0 Beyond seeing her hand raise tall to speak about things I can\u2019t relate to\u00a0 After just over a month, her bed felt like more of a… Continue Reading The Art of Making a Bed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/331"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}