{"id":69,"date":"2020-06-01T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:50:24","slug":"for-the-bakers-two-lynched-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/poetry\/for-the-bakers-two-lynched-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Bakers, Two Lynched in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ryan Lally<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you seen the marker in Lake City,<br>the reprinted mourning<br>dependent on footnotes,<br>and did you stop to wonder<br>how long it took Lavinia to stop<br>setting a place at the table for her husband,<br>for her daughter,<br>for each little life she grew<br>until they collapsed like dreams in the morning light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you traced the pathways of the moon,<br>that swirl of stars pounding relentlessly<br>over the earth, and gulped all that absence<br>between two points of life, knowing that the stars die<br>slower, that someone, anyone, could have snapped<br>their necks waiting for a God who was more than stone<br>and the suffusion of mirage and seen nothing<br>but the same stars that you see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ushered their negligible decay<br>into the pages of your amygdala,<br>or have you measured your distance between them<br>Yes, you say that history is black and white<br>while you live in color. Now they are fading;<br>you are indulging in forgetfulness,<br>and you are happy you are happy you are happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Issue 10, 2018, pg. 21<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Lally Have you seen the marker in Lake City,the reprinted mourningdependent on footnotes,and did you stop to wonderhow long it took Lavinia to stopsetting a place at the table [&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-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/poetrysouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}