{"id":317,"date":"2021-11-17T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:35:12","slug":"317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/2021\/11\/17\/317\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Ginsburg, <\/strong>The Adder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

May the pond be free<\/p>\n

from its companion \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pondwater<\/p>\n

blackening.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0the pond\u2019s edges<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

slipping \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as it does<\/p>\n

to the sides \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0behind<\/p>\n

below \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a swimming \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0adder<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

May the air and the sky be excused<\/p>\n

from one another \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as a child<\/p>\n

from a table \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as a table<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

from its planes the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0house from<\/p>\n

its frame \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Free<\/p>\n

garden from dirt<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

garden<\/p>\n

from sprouts waxing<\/p>\n

white and long under layers<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

of mulch \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Part spring from cold part<\/p>\n

wood from grain part grain part monstrous<\/p>\n

shout \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Part splinter<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

from wood \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0splinter from flesh<\/p>\n

Toss it in the fire<\/p>\n

divorce fire<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

from its color its tremble and<\/p>\n

its burn<\/p>\n

Divorce: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0does a door<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

need a wall to become itself<\/p>\n

to separate<\/p>\n

from to open to allow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa Ginsburg, The Adder May the pond be free from its companion \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pondwater blackening.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0the pond\u2019s edges   slipping \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as it does to the sides \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0behind below \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a swimming \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0adder   May the air and the sky be excused from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/homegrownstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}