{"id":26625,"date":"2025-02-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26625"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:12:47","slug":"capturing-campus-the-archway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/02\/09\/capturing-campus-the-archway\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Campus: The Archway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Archway&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>my great-grandmother had a house<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>she\u2019s gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but the house breathes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>its strange breaths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>strange faces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>strange furniture <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>strange footsteps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>imprinted by foreign feet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the house<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and it\u2019s frightening to think that someday I won\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that nobody will<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that the memory will die with me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>you\u2019re getting so tall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>she said before we left<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>beneath the archway in her living room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>neither she nor I will ever stand beneath it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>again, I am frightened that the memories <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>won\u2019t be memories anymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not that they will be conflagration-charred <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cataclysmically-consumed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>made holed and holy by a marksman\u2019s arsenal&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but that they will dry up and fade <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wet footprints on concrete<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>during the fourth of July&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when the weather was warm as the parade marched by&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sat inside a home I might never see&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>again, I am frightened<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that anyone and everything is only mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for a little while<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that life is only for a little while<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-9-820x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26626\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.80078125;width:360px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-9-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-9-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-9-768x959.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-9.png 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20230710_152643349_iOS-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26627\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:337px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20230710_152643349_iOS-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20230710_152643349_iOS-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20230710_152643349_iOS.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archway&nbsp; my great-grandmother had a house she\u2019s gone but the house breathes its strange breaths strange faces strange furniture strange footsteps imprinted by foreign feet I remember the house and it\u2019s frightening to think that someday I won\u2019t that nobody will that the memory will die with me you\u2019re getting so tall she said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":25727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[776,2034,2151,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26682,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26625\/revisions\/26682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}