in a culture of memory massacre
\nremembrance is an antidote to annihilation<\/p>\n
i want to remember what \u201cnever happened\u201d
\ni want to fill in the blanks between the words they wrote down
\ni want to hear the stories that were only spoken
\ni want to speak the language of the land
\ni want to remember what was beaten out, burned down, killed off and buried deep<\/p>\n
i want to resurface in a culture of memory massacre remembrance is an antidote to annihilation i want to remember what \u201cnever happened\u201d i want to fill in the blanks between the words they wrote down i want to hear the stories that were only spoken i want to speak the language of the land i want to remember … Continue reading coming up for air<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6885],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 16:09:00","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\/2573","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\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0<\/span>gasping for air and spluttering
\ncorded\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>to death
\nsevered\u00a0<\/span>from time
\nfreed\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>of language
\nthe body and mind\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>no longer
\nin sharp\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>separation
\n\u00a0<\/span>bound in responsibility
\n\u00a0<\/span>interconnected isotopes
\nnow \u00a0<\/span>i am truly alive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"