{"id":1221,"date":"2021-08-03T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:33:09","slug":"bottle-on-a-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/bottle-on-a-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle On a Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2014 Fall Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Bottle On a Shelf\nColin Howe, '16\n\nOn the shelf lay a bottle\nWhere I keep my soul\nIts green presence gazes back\nlongingly, rigid forms melting&nbsp;\nInto fluid spirits, like clocks\nFrozen before they could hit the ground\nPreserving their ungodly shapes\nUntil reality shifts them back into line.\n\nAnd maybe I could climb into that bottle\nJust for the day, or rent a room\nAnd stay a lonely, thought-filled night\nAnd watch as my vision twists\nand contorts, the clock on that wall\nfrozen hands stretched like rubber bands\nUntil reality shifts everything back into line<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Howe, &#8217;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}