A Holy Guest<\/b><\/p>\n
June Lee<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the bedrock bottom of your staircase,<\/span><\/p>\n I was baptized into your religion, an unforeseen guest of sixteen\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n sheepishly entering the shrine of non-silence: where shoes are allowed inside.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Was at least a shred of dignity\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n spared by the rubbing of soles against the doormat?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And it began \u2013\u2013 the frailty,<\/span><\/p>\n followed by the shepherd I befriended at the foyer,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the German kind, followed by the prick of the foot by the splintered wooden floor,<\/span><\/p>\n followed by a tale of their famed fifth cousin recounted by the football fanatic brother,<\/span><\/p>\n an affront to the father, a foe of the Patriots.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Past midnight I was wound down by the weighted blanket,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n dreambound blessed, four elbows exposed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and pressed against three pillows,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n parting upper lips only to whisper\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n two repressed wishes into the silence:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n first to let be known that I was merely an apparition,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n bound to be made agnostic once again upon exit. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Holy Guest June Lee At the bedrock bottom of your staircase, I was baptized into your religion, an unforeseen guest of sixteen\u00a0 sheepishly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,55,67],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-volume-22-spring-2023","category-winner","tag-june-lee"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}