{"id":1651,"date":"2012-07-20T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:33:16","slug":"the-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Ruth Stone<\/p>\n<p>The shock comes slowly<\/p><\/div>\n<div>as an afterthought.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>First you hear the words<\/div>\n<div>and they are like all other words,<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>ordinary, breathing out of lips,<\/div>\n<div>moving toward you in a straight line.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Later they shatter<\/div>\n<div>and rearrange themselves. They spell<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>something else hidden in the muscles<\/div>\n<div>of the face, something the throat wanted to say.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Decoded, the message etches itself in acid<\/div>\n<div>so every syllable becomes a sore.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The shock blooms into a carbuncle.<\/div>\n<div>The body bends to accommodate it.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>A special scarf has to be worn to conceal it.<\/div>\n<div>It is now the size of a head.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The next time you look,<\/div>\n<div>it has grown two eyes and a mouth.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>It is difficult to know which to use.<\/div>\n<div>Now you are seeing everything twice.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>After a while it becomes an old friend.<\/div>\n<div>It reminds you every day of how it came to be.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ruth Stone The shock comes slowly as an afterthought. &nbsp; First you hear the words and they are like all other words, &nbsp; ordinary, breathing out of lips, moving toward you in a straight line. &nbsp; Later they shatter and rearrange themselves. They spell &nbsp; something else hidden in the muscles of the face, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}