{"id":1572,"date":"2021-04-24T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2021-04-24T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:22:29","slug":"like-the-sky-ive-been-too-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"like the sky I\u2019ve been too quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\">I sit in the forbidden room\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a chair by your bed\u00a0 \u00a0 holding my weight in stones, in sorrows in uncountable grains of touch you can still speak\u00a0 so I lean over to catch \u00a0 your voice in my mouth to swallow these\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bits warm \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in beak  and you tell me I was always the quiet one  and you don\u2019t know about all the words layered in me\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 like rotting leaves  so many things I have said inside the cavern of my chest full of nervous screeching \u00a0 bats flitting around \u00a0 while\u00a0 things I don\u2019t say pile up \u00a0 light \u00a0 cuts across your blankets and I am afraid to touch you because you are a pillar of pain \u00a0 \u00a0 and this is the bad thing this is the moment I remember and write over and over and over always that light and my own body screaming from every rivet\u00a0 \u00a0 I promise now \u00a0 to go over\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the years to scratch the earth of your love \u00a0 for me  to erect those landscapes eclipses rays \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 shimmering like milk  in sky \u00a0 \u2014so I say\u2014 but this poem \u00a0 goes down the same \u00a0 mournful path and \u00a0 \u00a0 out the window\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 blackbirds have come to eat what I have\u00a0 scattered on blurred\u00a0 and foggy \u00a0 \u00a0 ground\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\n                            *from \u201cCalling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)\u201d\n                                 by Kaveh Akbar\n\nCrab Creek Review\n2018 Vol. 2\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit in the forbidden room\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a chair by your bed\u00a0 \u00a0 holding my weight in stones, in sorrows in uncountable grains of touch you can still speak\u00a0 so I lean over to catch \u00a0 your voice in my mouth to swallow these\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bits warm \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;like the sky I\u2019ve been too quiet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}