{"id":6234,"date":"2014-08-06T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6234"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:43:36","slug":"%ce%b4%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%84%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%b8%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5-%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%b2%ce%bb%ce%ad%cf%80%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6234","title":{"rendered":"\u0394\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5; \u0398\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b2\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(See What you Want; Want What you See)<\/strong><br \/>\nJerrod Schwarz<\/p>\n<p>There is a basilisk in my left eye, rapping the<br \/>\nsclera like cat claws on a window pane.<br \/>\nSometimes, I can see its shingled<br \/>\nbends when I turn on my bathroom light in<br \/>\nthe morning, when it zigzags from my cones<br \/>\nto my rods.<\/p>\n<p>When my second love (who smiled) left for<br \/>\nHouston and said that our arms were too<br \/>\nshort, it hissed Greek proverbs, scrawled them<br \/>\nred in the snowy edges:<\/p>\n<p>\u0394\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5; \u0398\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b2\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5<\/p>\n<p>It sleeps when I sleep, and I dream<br \/>\nits dreams, reveling in its visions<br \/>\nof Cyrene rebuilt, writhing against<br \/>\nancient, swollen women buying silphium.<\/p>\n<p>My father (who always smiled) often spoke of a<br \/>\ndemon who coiled around his left ear canal, who sculpted<br \/>\nmarble columns in his Eustachian tube and<br \/>\npierced Greek symbols into his stirrup with<br \/>\ntipped fangs:<\/p>\n<p>\u0394\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5; \u0398\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b2\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5<\/p>\n<p>Only once I asked it for a name, for<br \/>\nnomenclature. And when it sibilated<br \/>\n<i>I am instinct, <\/i>I laughed because<br \/>\nshe used to smile and he never frowned,<br \/>\nand because I had worried over the wrong eye.<\/p>\n<p><b>JERROD SCHWARZ<\/b> is a student at the University of South Florida. He currently lives in Tampa, and he has forthcoming work in <i>Squalorly Literary Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(See What you Want; Want What you See) Jerrod Schwarz There is a basilisk in my left eye, rapping the sclera like cat claws on a window pane. Sometimes, I can see its shingled bends when I turn on my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6220,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Cy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6234\/revisions\/6253"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}