{"id":114031,"date":"2018-07-23T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=114031"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:06:50","slug":"cutting-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/cutting-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curling them around<br \/>\nI hold their bodies in obscene embrace<br \/>\nthinking of everything but kinship.<br \/>\nCollards and kale<br \/>\nstrain against each strange other<br \/>\naway from my kissmaking hand and<br \/>\nthe iron bedpot.<br \/>\nthe pot is black,<br \/>\nthe cutting board is black,<br \/>\nmy hand,<br \/>\nand just for a minute<br \/>\nthe greens roll black under the knife,<br \/>\nand the kitchen twists dark on its spine<br \/>\nand I taste in my natural appetite<br \/>\nthe bond of live things everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cCutting greens\u201d originally appeared in Lucille Clifton<\/em> <em>(Jun 27, 1936\u2013Feb 13, 2010) 1987 memoir and poetry collection, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Good-Woman-1969-1980-American-Continuum\/dp\/0918526590\/?tag=braipick-20\" ><strong>Good Woman<\/strong><\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/good-woman-poems-and-a-memoir-1969-1980\/oclc\/718455417&amp;referer=brief_results\" >public library<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curling them around<br \/>\nI hold their bodies in obscene embrace<br \/>\nthinking of everything but kinship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}