\n<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t lick the witch wind that carries rumors
\nover shining aurora-lit prairies:<\/p>\n
horror of what comes to light at the dawn
\nof the mind. Will you permit me to rise<\/p>\n
from my sinkhole, to draw in the dirt
\nthe garnet ring my grandmother sold for gas<\/p>\n
just to survive? Arrive anonymous,
\nstarved on hardtack and shame,<\/p>\n
in this place where she was erased? How will
\nyou animate this forgotten history?<\/p>\n
Pepper the disarray with white-hooded
\nprairie schooners filled with calico-clothed<\/p>\n
divas gathering their brood alongside
\nmilitant fathers donning wide-brimmed hats?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s natural to want to lie when you
\nlook in the mirror, see you are naked<\/p>\n
down to the crimes. Let me tell you, honey,
\ntruth is the harmony your song has been<\/p>\n
missing. Set down a soapbox and let me
\nstep up and sing out about the naked<\/p>\n
and the dead. The ghosts we\u2019ve not yet seen clothe
\nthe woods of your stories. Let your candy<\/p>\n
apple cowboys die in their own desert
\nuntil my grandmother\u2019s name is spoken<\/p>\n
like the emergency it has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can\u2019t lick the witch wind that carries rumors over shining aurora-lit prairies: horror of what comes to light at the dawn of the mind. Will you permit me to rise from my sinkhole, to draw in the dirt the garnet ring my grandmother sold for gas just to survive? Arrive anonymous, starved on hardtack and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[6254,2187],"class_list":{"0":"post-12622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-preamble","9":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}