{"id":1451,"date":"2019-09-09T01:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2019-09-06T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:52:28","slug":"when-i-steal-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/09\/when-i-steal-by\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Steal by Ay\u015fe Tek\u015fen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Ay\u015fe Tek\u015fen lives in Ankara, Turkey where she works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University. Her work has been included in Gravel, After the Pause, The Write Launch, Uut Poetry, The Fiction Pool, What Rough Beast, Scarlet Leaf Review, Seshat, Neologism Poetry Journal, Anapest, Red Weather, Ohio Edit, SWWIM Every Day, The Paragon Journal, Arcturus, Constellations, the Same, The Mystic Blue Review, Jaffat El Aqlam, Brickplight, Willow, Fearsome Critters, Susan, The Broke Bohemian, The Remembered Arts Journal, Terror House Magazine, Shoe Music Press, Havik: Las Positas College Anthology, Deep Overstock, Lavender Review, Voice of Eve, The Courtship of Winds, Mojave Heart Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Rigorous, Rabid Oak, and Headway Quarterly. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Straylight, The Roadrunner Review, and Helen Literary Magazine. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>When I Steal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I steal, I steal big. <br>\nI steal the spring <br>\nAnd the birth of flowers. <br>\nI capture the giving, <br>\nA child\u2019s crush\u2014<br>\nInnocent and generous. <br>\nI secure the frames of nature <br>\nThat travel through my flesh\u2014<br>\nA hive for bees of steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stealing is a sacrifice <br>\nFor the nations apart, the pith <br>\nUncrossed, lines untangled. Tangle, <br>\nThen untangle this sacred oracle. <br>\nKnow your worth, the smell of your fear, <br>\nThe gleam of my kiss on your neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I steal big and bravely <br>\nFor your days <br>\nThat do not know <br>\nOf the atonement <br>\nOf my many Mays, <br>\nThe wait, the ebb <br>\nIn the anatomy of buildings, <br>\nThe delicate crossroads <br>\nOn the fields of war. I bless <br>\nMost the loss of beauty\u2014<br>\nMy incipient babes<br>\nI hold dear in my bosom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My times of yore are of physiques <br>\nImmature because of their anima.<br>\nThe poles of ambience are even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ay\u015fe Tek\u015fen lives in Ankara, Turkey where she works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University. Her work has been included in Gravel, After the Pause, The Write Launch, Uut Poetry, The Fiction Pool, What Rough Beast, Scarlet Leaf Review, Seshat, Neologism Poetry Journal, Anapest, Red Weather, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/09\/when-i-steal-by\/\" 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","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-np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}