{"id":8620,"date":"2022-10-31T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T01:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8620"},"modified":"2022-11-02T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:27:49","slug":"funeral-flowers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8620","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>Jessica Lee McMillan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cut for the dying, funeral flowers<br>make shoes for descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I trim away curling leaves,<br>leave fresh petals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>repurpose scent<br>to chase after death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>their sweet is a disappearing<br>of snowflakes drowned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as ocean submerges earth balms;<br>the florist shop in torrential rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is mere watercolour\u2014my rippling beacon<br>\u2014a drop caught in the pores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a greedy minute for beauty<br>is death. I can\u2019t keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>never these fingers catch a fragrance<br>where fragrance is sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fingers swollen river logs, tin-ringed;<br>their metal tint and tree bled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>met with obsolescence. its true perfume<br>written in runoff from the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JESSICA LEE McMILLAN<\/strong>\u00a0is an emerging poet with an MA in English. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in\u00a0<em>Train Poetry Journal, Gap Riot Press, Blank Spaces, Antilang, Tiny Spoon, Pinhole Poetry, Dream Pop Journal, SORTES<\/em>\u00a0and others. She writes from New Westminster, British Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Lee McMillan cut for the dying, funeral flowersmake shoes for descent. I trim away curling leaves,leave fresh petals. repurpose scentto chase after death. their sweet is a disappearingof snowflakes drowned as ocean submerges earth balms;the florist shop in torrential &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8620\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8616,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2f2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8620","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8620\/revisions\/8633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}