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A hard smart under hot wash of coffee. A hard smart under hot wash of coffee.Beneath the pulped swell of wintercitrus or a sharp draw of winter air. Notdelicately, Dr. Wayne tested each molaretched through. In sleep I willfit one to another and scrape. Whatgnaws at me: my own mouth, nowhindered and harbored by this night guard.In the day, set aside, its plastic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[19397,19399,19398,5430,19400],"class_list":{"0":"post-33993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-abbie","9":"tag-abecedarian","10":"tag-kiefer","11":"tag-poem","12":"tag-sensodyne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993","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=33993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Beneath the pulped swell of winter
citrus or a sharp draw of winter air. Not
delicately, Dr. Wayne tested each molar
etched through. In sleep I will
fit one to another and scrape. What
gnaws at me: my own mouth, now
hindered and harbored by this night guard.
In the day, set aside, its plastic holds a phantom
jaw. Dr. Wayne advised softer bristles,
kinder hand. Even in care, I have
long justified roughness. He said Maybe this<\/em>:
mint paste spiked with potassium
nitrate, clinically proven to hush the howl
of bared nerves. He said You might <\/em>
practice relaxing. <\/em>Let the querulous be
quelled. Enamel, harder than bone\u2014
relentless bones of my fingers or the sort
some dogs won\u2019t let go of. Listen. I\u2019m going to
tell you a secret: Where there
used to be space, I have two half-
veneers. Resin patches in the gap. Now
Wayne and you and my stark
X-rays know the truth: I\u2019ve wanted wholeness,
yes, and I\u2019ve rasped at what was whole. One doesn\u2019t
zero out the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"