responsive-lightbox domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/sundre5/ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Firebird in Captivity<\/strong><\/p>\n These works of fire you dangle The table catches quick fire. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Family Curse<\/strong><\/p>\n The glass is stained with lipstick. I smell it, I peer at photographs \u00a0 Firebird in Captivity These works of fire you dangle above me are losing their ashy feathers. The crinkling edges bend and wave in the sighing light. You shake your head like a towel, giving me dryness and warmth as I dance on cushions throughout our empty rooms. The table catches quick fire. I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nabove me are losing their ashy feathers.
\nThe crinkling edges bend and wave
\nin the sighing light.
\nYou shake your head like a towel,
\ngiving me dryness and warmth
\nas I dance on cushions throughout
\nour empty rooms.<\/p>\n
\nI think it\u2019s the first that cradles the heat
\nas the chairs crackle around,
\na gaggle of woodchips flapping away.
\nYou wave your arm like trimmed wings
\nand feed the flames invisible seeds.
\nI swing my ax of hair
\nand laugh as it sizzles like meat.<\/p>\n
\nYours or mine depends on the shade,
\nyour peach fuzzy lips smudged sideways
\nor my apple-peel red ones sliced on the rim.<\/p>\n
\nthat whiff of salty perfume
\nstaining a scarf you wore
\nor that necklace that screams for sunlight
\nin my bedroom closet.<\/p>\n
\nstained in coffee-sepia
\nlooking for the curve of a jaw like a bird\u2019s wing,
\nthe hint of hunger around the eyes,
\nthe lack of an essence like a vitamin.
\nA need for swallowing,
\nfor gobbling,
\na panic held in unsteady check.
\nThe need to lick cutlery,
\nour fingers grasping tongue-stained plates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"