{"id":26629,"date":"2025-02-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:28:12","slug":"capturing-campus-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/02\/16\/capturing-campus-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Campus: Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hummingbird&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what must it be like to know someone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not their favorite color or where they went to high school or where they want to retire or how they like their scrambled eggs on any given Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but the texture of their skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the patterns on their fingertips <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>born in the womb of their mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the webbing and weaving&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are they high-strung or laid back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with skin that sags around soft eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and peach fuzz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>molded lips that taste of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dark-roasted coffee&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the beating in their chest like a hummingbird&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when I press my ribs against, hip bone against theirs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we make a sculpture that breathes and pours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with sweat and some saccharine&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pleasure in the moment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a pulsing and pressure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the roughness of legs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shaved two days ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the bowing of their side and the curve of their arms&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bracing and borrowing glances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eyes closed, mouth wide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>taking honeysuckle and morning dew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>speaking only of cardamom and chamomile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whispering of rapture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be enchanted in a body<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to feel, to know<\/p>\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\/feb-23-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26630\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-23-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-23-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-23-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-23-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/feb-23-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbird&nbsp; what must it be like to know someone? not their favorite color or where they went to high school or where they want to retire or how they like their scrambled eggs on any given Sunday but the texture of their skin the patterns on their fingertips born in the womb of their mother [&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":[2034,224,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629"}],"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=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27189,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions\/27189"}],"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=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}