{"id":2445,"date":"2013-07-26T13:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:08:27","slug":"from-mankindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/from-mankindness\/","title":{"rendered":"From “Mankindness”"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Christina Davis<\/p>\n

1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Because he, because she,<\/div>\n
in so far as<\/div>\n
she (in so far as he) exists<\/div>\n

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is on the way<\/div>\n
to battle.<\/div>\n

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Not what is your name,<\/div>\n
but what<\/div>\n
the battle?<\/div>\n
2<\/div>\n

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\u201cEach one of us has come<\/div>\n
here and changed\u201d\u2009\u2014<\/div>\n

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is the battle. Born<\/div>\n
a loved one,<\/div>\n
borne a loved one.<\/div>\n
3<\/div>\n

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My father fought in this war, thus I can speak of it.<\/div>\n
My mother fought in this, thus I can speak.<\/div>\n
My friends, my lovers have fought, have worn<\/div>\n
(like the tree) their several directions at once. And I,<\/div>\n

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in so far as I<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 can say \u201cI\u201d<\/div>\n

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have fought to be related to these\u2009\u2014<\/div>\n
we strive and strain<\/div>\n
but also try to ripen the entity<\/div>\n
of the Other.<\/div>\n
4<\/div>\n
We kiss on lips, where the tenses attach.<\/div>\n

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We enter the conundrum<\/div>\n
of another\u2019s becoming.<\/div>\n

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We look for someone who can raise us<\/div>\n
up again to feet, or near to standing.<\/div>\n

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We tend in our terrors to forget (we<\/div>\n
do not store them) felicities.<\/div>\n

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I try each day to stay near beings,<\/div>\n
mornings when I am most<\/div>\n
mild. And may I nothing harm,<\/div>\n
in case it is them.<\/p>\n

–Read at St. Lydia’s on July 21 and 22, 2013<\/em><\/div>\n

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by Christina Davis 1   Because he, because she, in so far as she (in so far as he) exists   is on the way to battle.   Not what is your name, but what the battle? 2   \u201cEach one of us has come here and changed\u201d\u2009\u2014   is the battle. Born a loved […]<\/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\/2445"}],"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=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}