{"id":271,"date":"2014-06-24T00:59:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T04:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightowl.owu.edu\/?p=271"},"modified":"2014-06-24T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T04:59:15","slug":"if-i-were-a-phoneme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/2014\/06\/24\/if-i-were-a-phoneme\/","title":{"rendered":"If I were a phoneme,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Nalley<\/p>\n

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At first, there would be sin.<\/b><\/p>\n

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We\u2019d sing praises for our bodies,<\/b><\/p>\n

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the ripple of touch, the blushed skin,<\/b><\/p>\n

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the sinuous angles\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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we move within,<\/b><\/p>\n

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tensing,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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tensing,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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testing the sinew between muscle\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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and bone, rising\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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and falling,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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again and\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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again.<\/b><\/p>\n

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A single touch, a singe,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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a fire uprising, your grasp\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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on my hips, a rosin,<\/b><\/p>\n

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your taste\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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stronger than absinthe, perusing each inch of my body\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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surprisingly, gently, insinuating\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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more. Love, perhaps. But,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I misinterpreted\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your signs. You didn\u2019t stick around<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to even see morning. I\u2019ve not seen you<\/b>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 since.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And, now, I\u2019ve written a poem\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0about a mistaken moment of sincerity.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How embarrassing. I feel sick.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathleen Nalley     At first, there would be sin.   We\u2019d sing praises for our bodies,   the ripple of touch, the blushed skin,   the sinuous angles\u00a0   we move within,   tensing,\u00a0   tensing,\u00a0   testing the sinew between muscle\u00a0   and bone, rising\u00a0   and falling,\u00a0   again and\u00a0   again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written-by"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/nightowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}