{"id":298,"date":"2025-04-23T23:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:24:22","slug":"lavender-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/lavender-world\/","title":{"rendered":"lavender world"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anna Starkey<\/span><\/p>\n

bury me in fields of purple and pink.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

let wildflowers grow from my body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

violet roots tangle with green veins,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

soil fertilized by my decomposing corpse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

this is life after death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

in another life,<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

we meet at the field<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and lay as long as we like.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

boundaries between bodies blur<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

beneath pleiades\u2019 dull glow.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

seven sisters turned angels.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the star of bethlehem behind us,<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

though i\u2019ve never felt this sacred.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

divinity defined by her lips<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

but in this life,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

i pray from my self prescribed grave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

god, can you still hear me six feet deep?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

do flowers bloom from my tears?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

it was you that brandished the shovel,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but it was i who asked you to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

let me die,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

if you please.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

i don\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but if i must live,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

let me live\u202f\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in a lavender world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anna Starkey bury me in fields of purple and pink.\u00a0 let wildflowers grow from my body.\u00a0 violet roots tangle with green veins,\u00a0 soil fertilized by my decomposing corpse.\u00a0 this is life after death.\u00a0 \u00a0 in another life,\u00a0 we meet at the field\u00a0 and lay as long as we like.\u00a0 boundaries between bodies blur\u00a0 beneath… Continue Reading lavender world<\/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-298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions\/342"}],"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=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}