{"id":9164,"date":"2026-02-22T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9164"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:56:05","slug":"narcissist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9164","title":{"rendered":"Narcissist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Matthew Bruce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I am the millipede Mars.\u00a0<br>They colonized monuments\u00a0<br>of me before I dropped\u00a0<br>in skin. They crawl when\u00a0<br>I climb. I am millipede\u00a0<br>Giza. Artful in a sunset.\u00a0<br>Worthy of airbrushed shirts\u00a0<br>at my convention. A labia-<br>pink dusk, priceless. I sleep\u00a0<br>and legions of thread legs\u00a0<br>sew my mythos. I will never\u00a0<br>get the meaning. Brush it off.\u00a0<br>I am the giant buried in all<br>beds. Nested, pinched, I wait\u00a0<br>for excavation. Wait with me,\u00a0<br>bored with human stories<br>of has-been constellations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>MATTHEW BRUCE<\/strong>&#8216;s writing can be found in\u00a0<em>West Branch, Nashville Review, Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Common,<\/em>\u00a0among others. Originally from Atlanta, he now lives in LA, where he works as a contract editor for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and teaches online courses for Arizona State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Bruce I am the millipede Mars.\u00a0They colonized monuments\u00a0of me before I dropped\u00a0in skin. They crawl when\u00a0I climb. I am millipede\u00a0Giza. Artful in a sunset.\u00a0Worthy of airbrushed shirts\u00a0at my convention. A labia-pink dusk, priceless. I sleep\u00a0and legions of thread legs\u00a0sew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9159,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2nO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9164","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=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9164\/revisions\/9174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}