{"id":60,"date":"2020-06-01T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=60"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:19:55","slug":"mason-freeman-cut-jenkins-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/mason-freeman-cut-jenkins-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Freeman Cut Jenkins Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Frederick-Douglass Knowles II<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hung from an old hickory tree along the Mississippi<br><em>A uppity Nigguh<\/em> seared in a Red Summer flame<br>His <em>Oh Lawd!<\/em> forsaken for a swig of moonshine<br>A sun god wrung for eyeballin\u2019 the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A uppity Nigguh<\/em> seared in a Red Summer flame<br>His innard ate earth under a disemboweled sky<br>A sun god wrung for eyeballin\u2019 the sun<br>Charred loins stick-poked by children cloaked in Christianity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His innard ate earth under a disemboweled sky<br>Mothers cast quilts riverside to keep close eye<br>Charred loins stick-poked by children cloaked in Christianity<br>Minions mimicking their ghost-hooded inheritance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mothers cast quilts riverside to keep close eye<br>A crow psalmed the blues to a metronome of cracked bone<br>Minions mimicking their ghost-hooded inheritance<br>While I gripped my shiv in the shallows of a stream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crow psalmed the blues to a metronome of cracked bone<br>He hung from an old hickory tree along the Mississippi<br>While I gripped my shiv in the shallows of a stream<br>His<em> Oh Lawd!<\/em> forsaken for a swig of moonshine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 10, 2018, pg. 19<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick-Douglass Knowles II He hung from an old hickory tree along the MississippiA uppity Nigguh seared in a Red Summer flameHis Oh Lawd! forsaken for a swig of moonshineA sun [&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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}