{"id":1459,"date":"2017-05-24T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:51:30","slug":"hunting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/hunting-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\nI gather elderberries<br \/>\nby the river.<br \/>\nLast year, these purple-black fruits rotted<br \/>\non my counter &#8211; I<br \/>\nwas in the ER, clenched<br \/>\nwith pain and cold<br \/>\nunder ten blankets and by the time<br \/>\nthey opened me<br \/>\nthere was a liter of blood to take,<br \/>\none slender branch<br \/>\nand the fertilized egg<br \/>\nthat had split it open.<br \/>\nYou<\/p>\n<p>came later,<br \/>\nafter hours waiting<br \/>\nfor diagnosis, refusing morphine<br \/>\nwhile the nurses rolled their eyes,<br \/>\nafter Sarah called my parents, after<br \/>\nthey lifted me onto the operating table<br \/>\nand I told myself don\u2019t look, you\u2019ll<br \/>\nwake up from this , you<br \/>\nwalked in after I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>Yes,<br \/>\nyou drove me home at three am<br \/>\nand slept beside me,<br \/>\nand I didn\u2019t tell you<br \/>\nthat when I lay on my side, I<br \/>\ncould feel my insides slide into a hollow<br \/>\nthat was not there before.<br \/>\nYes, you cooked me soup<br \/>\nand stayed<br \/>\nthat first day,<br \/>\ntell me<\/p>\n<p>where you went after that<br \/>\nand never fully returned,<br \/>\nit was no mistake<br \/>\nwhen I met you and wrote<br \/>\nthe teeth of the lion<br \/>\non the throat of the deer, I knew you<br \/>\nfrom the start, if<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>you have forgotten<br \/>\nwhat we harvested, here<br \/>\nare the scars<br \/>\nthat can be seen,<br \/>\nI will show you again<br \/>\nthe path of the knife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gather elderberries by the river. Last year, these purple-black fruits rotted on my counter &#8211; I was in the ER, clenched with pain and cold under ten blankets and by the time they opened me there was a liter of blood to take, one slender branch and the fertilized egg that had split it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/hunting-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunting Season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6871],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6871"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 20:02:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}