{"id":343,"date":"2019-05-08T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/?p=343"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:03:52","slug":"especially-now-poetry-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/especially-now-poetry-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Especially Now by Blake Lapin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congratulations to Blake Lapin for winning the Poetry Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing &amp; Art Contest!<br \/>\n<\/strong>~<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This human form is divine.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I lay myself outright on the lawn<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&amp; let each distinction bulge,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trace a finger around my obliques, my triceps, my pectorals.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pink and white clefts remain on the skin.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I speculate about what part of the trauma will scar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That ocean wave has not so completely vanished. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s akin, maybe, to a rodent\u2019s lasting decision<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As my mother baked dinosaur chicken nuggets years ago,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a tiny New York City apartment: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She, my mother, opened the stove<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To find the rat too fried to lament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Blake Lapin for winning the Poetry Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing &amp; Art Contest! ~ This human form is divine. &hellip;<\/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":[3,50],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-volume20","tag-blake-lapin","tag-poetry-award"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}