{"id":164,"date":"2026-04-07T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:48:34","slug":"renee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/renee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #003366\">Mark Katrinak<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">We didn\u2019t make it very far. From the first scene\u2014white magnolias<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">late to bloom, the fairways with a hint of burn, a wayward shot off<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">the second tee\u2014you knew you were out of bounds. How many<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">penalty strokes can one accrue and still remain in game? That last<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">shot\u2014inevitable where it came to stop\u2014unplayable lie. Cicadas were<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">starting up their chain saws. \u201cDon\u2019t call me; I\u2019ll call you. You know<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">the alternative.\u201d I watched the sparrows depart abruptly from the trees:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">an Aves instinct, a soundless call only flying vertebrates can hear. I<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">came to you conversely: a shadowed life, walking unknowingly toward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">your corner. Decades later I still see those trees\u2019 leaves shaking with-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">out any sign of the wind. Magnolias drop their flowers which wind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">disperses amongst the maples, evergreens. Along the boulevard, drivers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;color: #666699\">in a hurry disregard the caution lights.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Katrinak We didn\u2019t make it very far. From the first scene\u2014white magnolias late to bloom, the fairways with a hint of burn, a wayward shot off the second tee\u2014you knew you were out of bounds. How many penalty strokes can one accrue and still remain in game? That last shot\u2014inevitable where it came to&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/poetry\/renee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ren\u00e9e<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}