{"id":7738,"date":"2017-11-15T23:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7738"},"modified":"2017-11-15T23:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:19:45","slug":"the-birds-are-stealing-my-dreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7738","title":{"rendered":"The birds are stealing my dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tara Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The birds are stealing my dreams<br \/>\nthey whirl above my bed at night<br \/>\nand settle on my headboard<br \/>\nruffling feathers<br \/>\ntwitching wings<br \/>\ncock silent heads<br \/>\nto track my breathing<br \/>\nslowing, deepening<br \/>\nthey know to wait until I sink<br \/>\nslowing<br \/>\nuntil my eyelids flicker<br \/>\ndeepening<br \/>\nuntil I weave the dreams<\/p>\n<p>The birds hop to my pillow<br \/>\nand tug things from my ears<br \/>\nnightmares &#8212; sharp, dry sticks<br \/>\ntinsel-shred adventures<br \/>\ntuft-of-down romance<br \/>\nthroughout the night they take it all<br \/>\nmy slumber\u2019s residue<br \/>\nthey weave their nests<br \/>\nand bear their young<br \/>\nin shiny hope and sticky fear<br \/>\ndust-bound regrets<br \/>\nand shimmering delight<\/p>\n<p>I used to write my dreams<br \/>\ninto lined-paper cages<br \/>\nor tell them into amber<br \/>\nnow all that\u2019s left is glitter on my pillow<br \/>\nor a thorn<br \/>\na twitter at the window<br \/>\nthe birds wake me with the sun<br \/>\nto sing my dreams back to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TARA CAMPBELL<\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taracampbell.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.taracampbell.com<\/a>] is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and an assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse. Prior publication credits include <em>SmokeLong Quarterly, Litbreak, Masters Review, Luna Station Quarterly, Quail Bell Magazine, and Queen Mob\u2019s Teahouse<\/em>. Her novel, <em>TreeVolution<\/em>, was released in 2016, and her collection, <em>Circe\u2019s Bicycle<\/em>, with be published in fall 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Campbell &nbsp; &nbsp; The birds are stealing my dreams they whirl above my bed at night and settle on my headboard ruffling feathers twitching wings cock silent heads to track my breathing slowing, deepening they know to wait until &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7732,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-20O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7738","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=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7738\/revisions\/7745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}