MOTHER. A September apple. Conical, elongated, medium in size,<\/p>\n
yellow background, bright red mottling (as cheeks can be). Bears fruit<\/p>\n
when young. Perfumed flesh\u2014when ripe. The old apples that still<\/p>\n
pass lips are: Lady (tender flesh, fruit of aristocrats). Mann. Maiden<\/p>\n
Blush. Knobbed Russet\u2014potato-pocked, ugly welts and knobs. This<\/p>\n
I do not like. There is Seek-no-Further. It hangs on the tree until<\/p>\n
overripe. All the while, Mother is stripping an apple, a pale green eye.<\/p>\n
The toes of her boots laden with layers of peel. Lies upon lies upon.<\/p>\n
You will sleep together in a bed big as the moon, so big you can never<\/p>\n
reach the other side, she says. The knife sweeps round and round,<\/p>\n
skinning the eye. I would not. I took to the cellar, the ripening room.<\/p>\n
Above, the season sloughed, rabbits flushed white to match the snow.<\/p>\n
Breathe. Cellar gas. Breathe. What other things are heavier than air?<\/p>\n
Unwilling womb shedding velvet; jar-pickled desire; a hope boiled<\/p>\n
dry in a cast-iron pan. Breathe. In the dark he will whisper to me My<\/p>\n
dear you are like a lamp in the night. Ethylene, kerosene, the names<\/p>\n
of lost girls. He will be Wolf River, roots solid on the shores of Lake<\/p>\n
Erie, sweeter in the cold. I\u2019ll climb into his crown, make darkness my<\/p>\n
blanket. A captive heart must sleep with one eye open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":626,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-630","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl223.pcherry.imgd.ca\/assignment3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl223.pcherry.imgd.ca\/assignment3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl223.pcherry.imgd.ca\/assignment3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgl223.pcherry.imgd.ca\/assignment3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgl223.pcherry.imgd.ca\/assignment3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}