{"id":686,"date":"2018-03-08T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=686"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:56:14","slug":"my-only-answer-or-new-beginnings-by-mitzi-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2018\/03\/08\/my-only-answer-or-new-beginnings-by-mitzi-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"My Only Answer (or New Beginnings) by Mitzi Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitzi was chosen as the winner of the poetry category during our February 2018 Love Stinks writing contest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Only Answer (or New Beginnings)<\/p>\n<p><em>~One sweet death with me tonight~<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He be like<\/p>\n<p>lighting to my system, insides mangled, bones cut and contorted<\/p>\n<p>pain as beautiful as leaves<\/p>\n<p>singing and twisted in the rain<\/p>\n<p>under the spotlight, hanging tonight so close to, the earth<\/p>\n<p>Blue Moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He be like<\/p>\n<p>frightening after the pulsating rhythm, has ended, he wipes my blood<\/p>\n<p>off him one calculated move<\/p>\n<p>practice no doubt made perfect, possibly<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s Moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I be like<\/p>\n<p>icing to his fucked up day, to his fucked up life, being dark in a world full<\/p>\n<p>Of light<\/p>\n<p>And this white dress, pressed<\/p>\n<p>tightly to this black skin, reminds him too much of evenings<\/p>\n<p>sweating under<\/p>\n<p>Blood Moon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\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 And Lord I be like crying<\/p>\n<p>my insides dying, crushed sunflowers under, his feet, and he say he love me<\/p>\n<p>bulging eyes and twisted mouth<\/p>\n<p>toes sweeping light hum of mist, my only answer matching his bliss<\/p>\n<p>New Moon Daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitzi was chosen as the winner of the poetry category during our February 2018 Love Stinks writing contest. &nbsp; My Only Answer (or New Beginnings) ~One sweet death with me tonight~ He be like lighting to my system, insides mangled, bones cut and contorted pain as beautiful as leaves singing and twisted in the rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}