SYLVIA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (HOUR 1, 6am Poetry Marathon 2020)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Her family didn’t know<\/p>\n
what to make of her.\u00a0 They wanted<\/p>\n
her to shut up, stop talking about<\/p>\n
what went on in that two-story house \u2013 the<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
stifling, the screaming, the belt descending,<\/p>\n
the shutting down, out; the endless<\/p>\n
you aren’t doing whatever you’re told.<\/p>\n
The sniping.\u00a0 Lies. Mum’s. Da’s. The hands,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
always the hands in the wrong spot.<\/p>\n
The shoulder, the waist.\u00a0 Lower, not<\/p>\n
to be mentioned.\u00a0 Not even<\/p>\n
here \u2013 on the blank page \u2013 god no,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
not even there.\u00a0 Shut up, put your fingers<\/p>\n
in your ears.\u00a0 Mum’s the word.\u00a0 Hers.<\/p>\n
Should be yours.\u00a0 Make yourself smaller,<\/p>\n
shrink your eyes, your heart, go away.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Don’t try to make him, her stop.<\/p>\n
Leave.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SYLVIA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (HOUR 1, 6am Poetry Marathon 2020) Her family didn’t know what to make of her.\u00a0 They wanted her to shut up, stop talking about what went on in that two-story house \u2013 the stifling, the screaming, the belt descending, the shutting down,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62774,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737\/revisions\/62774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}