{"id":2548,"date":"2024-04-13T23:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T23:34:54","slug":"labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/13\/labor-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"labor of love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">labor of love.\nGabby McNally, '24\n\nyou are the cold side of a queen bed; \nthe sole thing my hand brushes against \naside from hope.\ni wake up with last night\u2019s toothache \nin a dream you around my spine, \nasleep i stay\n\n<em>(first sight of red eyes, tears of sleep running horses. \ntame them. more awake, more volatile. split\nthe head open to be something loved.)<\/em>\n\nwant; a feeling indescribable;\ni am stripped down to co\u0000ffee grinds spilled \non porcelain\nstanding opened by beaming broad palms. \nyou seek love from the shine in my eyes\nit is your own.\n\n<em>(get hands on something. touch to be touched.\nbe painted in the image of a voyeur to be seen.\nthe heart hammers hungrily, eaten alive by love.)\n<\/em>\nyou are the burning house that blinds me; \nan unstable \u0000flame, heart pulsing raw\na screen of smoke\nwe beg for softness, to set \u0000fire to\nare all the men that we hate, the ones \n i cannot leave.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabby McNally, &#8217;24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,10,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548"}],"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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}