{"id":6729,"date":"2015-06-04T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6729"},"modified":"2015-06-04T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:27:19","slug":"how-to-write-about-sand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6729","title":{"rendered":"How to Write About Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jessica Wiseman Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sand is more than time<br \/>\nor walks parallel to oceans, or sunsets.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t make this poem about sinking<br \/>\nor drawing in wet sand with one finger.<\/p>\n<p>Sand is speckled in her hair, on her scalp.<br \/>\nSand is pouring out of her sneakers onto the bathroom floor.<\/p>\n<p>I found a grain of it a week later beneath my fingernail,<br \/>\nand a surprise wealth of sand between my sheets.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never forget the sand in my mouth. I bite down,<br \/>\nand remember that it is not a fragile thing, at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JESSICA WISEMAN LAWRENCE<\/strong> is a graduate of Longwood University. You can find her recent work in <em>Silver Birch Press<\/em>, <em>Zoomoozophone Review<\/em>, and <em>Third Wednesday<\/em>, among others. She lives in rural central Virginia, where she is an office manager by day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Wiseman Lawrence Sand is more than time or walks parallel to oceans, or sunsets. I won\u2019t make this poem about sinking or drawing in wet sand with one finger. Sand is speckled in her hair, on her scalp. Sand &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6726,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6729","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=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6736,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6729\/revisions\/6736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}