{"id":1624,"date":"2024-01-31T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T17:54:18","slug":"old-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Old Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Chest press together.\nLegs shift, find space.\n\nMy hand follows an old path\u2014 \nthe groove of his back\u2014from\nshoulder to sweet curve below,\nmarked with the day\u2019s scent.\n\nI think of what I will become \nlater in a box tucked in white-branched clay.\n\nEach day I lift my face\nto sun, carry its heat with me.\n\nLike the spruce tree, I bear the breeze.\nLike the tree, the wind batters me.\n\nThe world will etch me in ink,\nbut that\u2019s a vain thought. It knows\nnothing of me. I am no more than\npebbles or a rain-flecked stream.\n\nIn our bed there are no keys, \nno locks, no doors, only\n\nthe heat we generate, the wet tongued\nmoments that carry us through\nbruised and yearning days.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in <em>Rogue Agent<\/em> September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chest press together. Legs shift, find space. My hand follows an old path\u2014 the groove of his back\u2014from shoulder to sweet curve below, marked with the day\u2019s scent. I think of what I will become later in a box tucked in white-branched clay. Each day I lift my face to sun, carry its heat with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Bodies&#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-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}