\u201cWE GO\/IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS\/DOWN THE IMPERTURBABLE STREET\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gwendolyn Brooks, from \u201cAn Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We sit under a hot light. \u201cWe\u201d
sounds sly unless I go
into the particulars. What business do I have in
making wide claims? Different
muscles govern the directions
mouths move\u2014chomping down
and grinding across, for instance. The
tongue insists on itself, imperturbable,
even when shunted aside, wrapped in street
widths of gauze, to jump away from fat teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTHE FEELING OF REPELLING AN INVASION IN ORDER, ONE DAY, TO BE YOURSELF\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I rarely beam from feeling \u201cWE GO\/IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS\/DOWN THE IMPERTURBABLE STREET\u201d Gwendolyn Brooks, from \u201cAn Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire\u201d We sit under a hot light. \u201cWe\u201dsounds sly unless I gointo the particulars. What business do I have inmaking wide claims? Differentmuscles govern the directionsmouths move\u2014chomping downand grinding across, for instance. Thetongue insists on itself, … 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-QV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","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=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
compliant. Of
course, pleasure comes from repelling
any kink in the scheme. An invasion
of arrows launch from small chariots, orderly
volleys from dull women. One day,
as we\u2019re all hastening to rot, might
the worms tarry a moment, and let you be
yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean is a professor of English and women\u2019s studies at Vassar College. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Comparative Literature and Art History from Indiana University, a master\u2019s degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University, and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She has attended the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference and has been to the AWP on multiple occasions. Jean also enjoys drawing and frequent visits to her family back home in Indiana.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"