{"id":36368,"date":"2025-12-08T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36368"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:38:51","slug":"recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36368","title":{"rendered":"Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a pay-phone in France<br \/>\nwould still reach you;<br \/>\nin the South; in the third<br \/>\nor second life. Still then<br \/>\nas a teenager, bloodless<br \/>\nand senseless, skidding<br \/>\nanother riven diagram<br \/>\ninto the dust. Now even<br \/>\nstaggered into fake quietude<br \/>\nI can\u2019t believe there is<br \/>\nno causeway to the dead.<br \/>\nWhy should there not be.<\/p>\n<p>I know it is just a zip<br \/>\nin circumstance. Tending June\u2019s<br \/>\nsnow driven to musk<br \/>\nand peachlit common rain.<br \/>\nI would rather be studding euros<br \/>\ninto a slot, sighing and missing<br \/>\nmy tether for living.<br \/>\nGrief\u2019s seam is ever false<br \/>\nto the bereaver, whenever she<br \/>\nreturns, to the sleeping<br \/>\nor to the psychotic. Her things<br \/>\nno longer where she left them.<\/p>\n<p>And her children\u2019s closed forms,<br \/>\nlike lakes too deep to sound,<br \/>\nor too dull. Love for a while<br \/>\nwas the nearest exit,<br \/>\na problem too wonderful<br \/>\nto solve, or bitter to abandon.<br \/>\nIf I could speak I\u2019d ask<br \/>\nwhat it was you saw<br \/>\nin your dark room again,<br \/>\nat the foot of the bed, or<br \/>\nslumbering beside you?<br \/>\nThe dim outline of a preset ghost.<\/p>\n<p>You will never tell me,<br \/>\neven if I could close<br \/>\nthe broken skin of heaven<br \/>\nwith my mouth. My<br \/>\nstreaming teeth. The stealing light,<br \/>\nwhere everyone emerges<br \/>\nthen, like water<br \/>\ntravels down alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe a pay-phone in France would still reach you; in the South; in the third or second life. Still then as a teenager, bloodless and senseless, skidding another riven diagram into the dust. Now even staggered into fake quietude I can\u2019t believe there is no causeway to the dead. Why should there not be. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2330],"class_list":{"0":"post-36368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-recall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368","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=36368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}