{"id":1321,"date":"2019-07-09T01:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:21:22","slug":"narcissus-bulbs-by-jo-longley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/07\/09\/narcissus-bulbs-by-jo-longley\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcissus Bulbs by Jo Longley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Jo Longley is an alumna of Kingston University&#8217;s Creative Writing MFA Program and past Editor of &#8216;Ripple Magazine.&#8217; Her poetry has been published by &#8216;Cattywampus,&#8217; &#8216;Confingo,&#8217; The Enemies Project, and &#8216;Anapest&#8217; among others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>Narcissus Bulbs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My brain is a daffodil<\/em>. <br>I like the crisp line of your trousers, <br>pressed divinely; an employable skill that is. <br>I\u2019m scared most every day, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like all things that happen everyday\u2014meh. <br>A sustained lightning flash of terror looks just like <br>a plain white wall. Who\u2019d have known? Besides<br>the terrified and soldiering on. A daffodil? Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t begin to explain why, save the soles <br>of my feet ache, you seem suitable to employ, <br>and I press this upon you: for a while you <br>crave color\u2014a splash, a dot\u2014and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when that does not come,<br>you swear to every aphid that crawls over you: <br>some black would be suitable, actually, a wall of black<br>would really do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Longley is an alumna of Kingston University&#8217;s Creative Writing MFA Program and past Editor of &#8216;Ripple Magazine.&#8217; Her poetry has been published by &#8216;Cattywampus,&#8217; &#8216;Confingo,&#8217; The Enemies Project, and &#8216;Anapest&#8217; among others. Narcissus Bulbs My brain is a daffodil. I like the crisp line of your trousers, pressed divinely; an employable skill that is. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/07\/09\/narcissus-bulbs-by-jo-longley\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-lj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}