{"id":50,"date":"2018-04-23T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=50"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:14:03","slug":"why-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/why-to-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Why to Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Celisa Steele<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sleep, you have to forget,<br>each night letting go<br>the grapes, the milk, the gin,<br>mouthwash and bread until the whole<br>grocery list unstitches. Then the news of wars<br>and the color of your hair, your daughter\u2019s<br>age and red rain boots. Metronome,<br>mendicant, cruet, then every word<br>you\u2019ve known. Even your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything you forget<br>lines the path to sleep \u2014<br>breadcrumbs of unknowing<br>marking nameless streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you wake,<br>retrace your steps,<br>relearn any fact<br>or wish you find<br>left untouched<br>by night\u2019s ravenous birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 9, 2017. pg. 17<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celisa Steele To sleep, you have to forget,each night letting gothe grapes, the milk, the gin,mouthwash and bread until the wholegrocery list unstitches. Then the news of warsand the color [&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-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}