{"id":2562,"date":"2013-11-13T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:25:53","slug":"afterimages-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/afterimages-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterimages (excerpt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Audre Lourde<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nHowever the image enters<br \/>\nits force remains within<br \/>\nmy eyes<br \/>\nrockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve<br \/>\nwild for life, relentless and acquisitive<br \/>\nlearning to survive<br \/>\nwhere there is no food<br \/>\nmy eyes are always hungry<br \/>\nand remembering<br \/>\nhowever the image enters<br \/>\nits force remains.<br \/>\nA white woman stands bereft and empty<br \/>\na black boy hacked into a murderous lesson<br \/>\nrecalled in me forever<br \/>\nlike a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep<br \/>\netched into my visions<br \/>\nfood for dragonfish that learn<br \/>\nto live upon whatever they must eat<br \/>\nfused images beneath my pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Audre Lourde I However the image enters its force remains within my eyes rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve wild for life, relentless and acquisitive learning to survive where there is no food my eyes are always hungry and remembering however the image enters its force remains. A white woman stands bereft and empty a [&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\/2562"}],"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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}