{"id":2016,"date":"2020-04-11T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2020-03-28T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:14:32","slug":"my-brother-by-preeti-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/04\/11\/my-brother-by-preeti-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My Brother&#8221; by Preeti Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u2003\u2003<em>For Anand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother\u2019s greatest craftwork, sewn <br>\ninto the sun, melting drops <br>\nof sunlight like a smile <br>\nthat burns hell into my face.<br>\nHe undoes the stitches<br>\nof her making with an acting class.<br>\nIts daily goals of fives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five minutes in meditation.<br>\nFive minutes of gratitude.<br>\nFive minutes of affirmation.<br>\nI wish to be introduced as Comic Con\u2019s first<br>\nIndian Superhero, Chakra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Begins to peel off the edges,<br> a lusting lip of envelope, <br> I want to be the first Indian superhero, <br> Chakra, crinkling belly, his Ironman <br> monologue inviting the Mandarin<br> to fight, an instapot pressure smolder<br> ready to steam, Pulp Fiction<br> gangster car ride drift-tilted<br> on a classroom chair, basking in <br> sun-blinding applause, I AM CHAKRA,<br> a tiger tearing into the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Preeti Shah is a Queens-based Indian American poet who was a Brooklyn Poets 2019 Fall Fellowship Finalist. She served as Assistant Director of Communications for YJPerspectives Magazine. You can find her on her IG handle: @babyprema <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2003\u2003For Anand Mother\u2019s greatest craftwork, sewn into the sun, melting drops of sunlight like a smile that burns hell into my face. He undoes the stitches of her making with an acting class. Its daily goals of fives. Five minutes in meditation. Five minutes of gratitude. Five minutes of affirmation. I wish to be introduced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2020\/04\/11\/my-brother-by-preeti-shah\/\" 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-2016","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-ww","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}