{"id":48,"date":"2018-04-22T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=48"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:13:01","slug":"insomnia-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/insomnia-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Randolph Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each afternoon we took apart<br>the stacks of cots at the back of the room.<br>The teacher and her aides<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>handed out pillows and quilts, and we<br>lay on the cots for forty-five minutes<br>in silence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the dark.<br>I lay awake while all the others slept<br>like I lie awake sometimes now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wondering what made me uneasy<br>even then, the voices<br>of the elders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whispery and muted<br>nursing their secrets<br>and the other children around me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>content, trusting<br>in their sound napping<br>until the lights clicked back on,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>until they rose, yawning,<br>as the cots and pillows<br>were gathered and put away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 9, 2017, pg. 10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randolph Thomas Each afternoon we took apartthe stacks of cots at the back of the room.The teacher and her aides handed out pillows and quilts, and welay on the cots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}