{"id":195,"date":"2024-03-24T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/?p=195"},"modified":"2024-03-28T22:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:13:27","slug":"way-of-all-flesh-by-jacob-bachinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2024\/03\/24\/way-of-all-flesh-by-jacob-bachinger\/","title":{"rendered":"WAY OF ALL FLESH By: Jacob Lee Bachinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Things you see<\/div>\n<div>around here: \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>seal carcass<\/div>\n<div>splayed on a garage floor\u2014<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>belly sliced open<\/div>\n<div>like the pages<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>of an old book,<\/div>\n<div>blood pooled<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>in the leaves<\/div>\n<div>of flayed viscera.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The blood is so red<\/div>\n<div>it looks black, \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>but the seal appears<\/div>\n<div>waiting, accepting<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>of this fate,<\/div>\n<div>patient, cooperative,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>biding time<\/div>\n<div>on the ice-cold concrete.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<i>North West River, Labrador<\/i>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(Jacob Lee Bachinger&#8217;s collection of poetry, <i>Earth-cool, and Dirty<\/i>,\u00a0 was published in 2021 by Radiant Press.\u00a0 He teaches Academic Writing at University of Lethbridge.)\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things you see around here: \u00a0 \u00a0 seal carcass splayed on a garage floor\u2014 \u00a0 belly sliced open like the pages \u00a0 of an old book, blood pooled \u00a0 in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2024\/03\/24\/way-of-all-flesh-by-jacob-bachinger\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}