{"id":1637,"date":"2025-05-29T05:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:55:54","slug":"cracking-the-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Cracking the Lid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>after Lois Dodd\u2019s painting \u201cLifting the Lid, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left my body in a box&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">where needs rattled at every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sky thick fabric, color of fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queen of beech and fern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needs rattle at every turn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of river against muddy bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queen of beech and fern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">digs holes in the riverbank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The river against muddy bank,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only an image in my head,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">those holes in the riverbank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">failures I think I\u2019ve finally fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only an image in my head,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the world of ticks &amp; clocks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">failures I think I finally fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when I left my body in a box.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXewQQ37EN0HXVB6_GCdR66cddnJPu84ypILThZdSriDwOY1lbNo8HfKw-31pw1WY6fME0l1pS6GN4QrmnCewqrjb9zc3kl-H9d1uGrG6GikjSGAeSyL7LufVjmf7HB3HP81Jjkl_D0V1-4yYw1_G-vLAzmN?key=ufppj1h2YOKTpUXupGFORA\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in <em>Water-Stone Review<\/em>, Fall 2025 issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Lois Dodd\u2019s painting \u201cLifting the Lid, 2014 I left my body in a box&nbsp; where needs rattled at every turn. Sky thick fabric, color of fox. Queen of beech and fern. Needs rattle at every turn of river against muddy bank. Queen of beech and fern digs holes in the riverbank. The river against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cracking the Lid&#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-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}