{"id":62,"date":"2020-06-01T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=62"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:48:39","slug":"remembering-the-bodies-taken-by-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/remembering-the-bodies-taken-by-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Bodies Taken by Lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ryan Lally<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"largepaddingleft largemarginleft\"><em>We who take the beaten track,<br>Trying to appease<br>Hearts near breaking with their lack,<br>We need elegies.<br>\u2013\u2013 Countee Cullen, \u201cThrenody for a Brown Girl\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I want to see your faces as more<br>Than a genre of pain and smoldering dreams,<br>I\u2019ll hold my hand to your pulses and speak<br>Your resonances to the stars<br>That shined on all of us.<br>History calls us to slow burning embers<br>And the placid riots against the body,<br>The absolute zero of fact, so here it is:<br>We have darkened the native pathways<br>Of broken bodies and human life<br>And we have soaked our feet in dead gray coals<br>And become old and forgetful<br>With memory like a two lane road\u2013\u2013repaved into disbelief.<br>You crave a fact:<br>Well, beneath my feet lay the unknown<br>Ashes of those who breathed smoke to protect white air.<br>We bottled our histories with silence<br>And bounced them in the boughs of young poplar trees<br>To whisper for the dead disposed.<br>Yes, it\u2019s true, we need elegies<br>For us bodies still walking the masquerade,<br>The ones with bones collecting dust<br>On our mantles. Yes, it\u2019s true too,<br>I cannot forget you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>&nbsp;Issue 10, 2018, pg. 20<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Lally We who take the beaten track,Trying to appeaseHearts near breaking with their lack,We need elegies.\u2013\u2013 Countee Cullen, \u201cThrenody for a Brown Girl\u201d Because I want to see your [&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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}