{"id":8750,"date":"2023-10-29T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8750"},"modified":"2023-10-29T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:37:59","slug":"mortar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8750","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Mortar<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Amy Wunders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, held by the mortar<br>black tar as gritty as lava<br>after grinding against my cheekbones<br>pulling away the tender fat<br>off my hipbones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s because I was singing<br>so exuberantly<br>or because you were panting<br>so heavily<br>that my windshield fogged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still now, my skin smeared<br>against the painted yellow lines,<br>a reflector at my eye line.<br>With a slivered peek<br>my vision strains to find you<br>my unbridled, unbuckled,<br>wild, domesticated, partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relief tranquilizes me<br>floats me off into peace<br>as I watch you jaunt over<br>and lap up my blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AMY WUNDERS<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Poet and a Potter. While she loves the bustle of the LA city life, she also enjoys the attunement of mountain lifestyle and finds inspiration from both. Amy has been writing poetry since she was young and recently found the gumption to share her word-strings during the pandemic (thanks for something, covid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Wunders Still, held by the mortarblack tar as gritty as lavaafter grinding against my cheekbonespulling away the tender fatoff my hipbones. Maybe it\u2019s because I was singingso exuberantlyor because you were pantingso heavilythat my windshield fogged. Still now, my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8748,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8750","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2h8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8750","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=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8750\/revisions\/8771"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}