{"id":2631,"date":"2026-08-13T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:39","slug":"shifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/shifter\/","title":{"rendered":"shifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i am just the shape i\u2019m in<br \/>\nall fragile limbs<br \/>\nlike tree fingers<br \/>\nspread out like vines<br \/>\nveins of energy<br \/>\nvibrating<br \/>\ni am light<br \/>\ntraveling like you\u2019d never believe<br \/>\nfaster than your eyes can long for<br \/>\nsuch weight<br \/>\ni bring you down<br \/>\nbut I am flying overhead<br \/>\nyou reach but fall short<br \/>\nvoices carry<br \/>\nalways listening<br \/>\nsailing up your ear canal<br \/>\ni am opening<br \/>\nshifting<br \/>\nspreading<br \/>\nleaking into unfelt crevices<br \/>\na spineless serpent<br \/>\na rift in your disposition<br \/>\ni am dissonance<br \/>\na quake in your calm<br \/>\na desperate reprieve in waiting<br \/>\ni can feel it<br \/>\nyou can feel it<br \/>\nit eludes us<br \/>\ni am the shape i\u2019m in<br \/>\na mass of interference<br \/>\na giant, fragile stem<br \/>\nprotruding from rooted rubble<br \/>\nhalf rotten, half thriving<br \/>\nchoking on my own birth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am just the shape i\u2019m in all fragile limbs like tree fingers spread out like vines veins of energy vibrating i am light traveling like you\u2019d never believe faster than your eyes can long for such weight i bring you down but I am flying overhead you reach but fall short voices carry always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/shifter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">shifter<\/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-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 14:20:17","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\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}