{"id":26772,"date":"2025-02-20T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26772"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:54:07","slug":"asoss-45-bewitched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/02\/20\/asoss-45-bewitched\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 45 | Bewitched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Where are you from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia. DC area, Arlington.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I\u2019m sure you get this question a lot, but do you live close to the cemetery?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Uh, yeah I\u2019d say it\u2019s about a ten minute drive\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>EECS Building, 3:30PM, 11\/21\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>i met you for the first time as a stranger. we talked about the weather and your father and the new prodigy and the death of our favorite restaurant, like we were seventeen again and you had crawled through my bedroom window and into my arms. as if the world had not stopped spinning, a planet so big and full it hurt to laugh. as if i am not sitting on your gravestone, a quiver in my lip and a tremor in my chest, whispering to the soil to keep you warm in place of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You\u2019re gonna be the best\u2014oh look! The sun is out!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>AADL Downtown, 12:00PM, 11\/12\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>it was a weed. i wanted to call it pretty but it was a weed, a dandelion beaming with the blush of the sun.  quick to bloom, quicker to rot. against all odds it has conquered the impossible, leaves outstretched in heavenly embrace. what wouldn&#8217;t a flower give to be appreciated? if i had the chance, i would sit on the cobblestone and watch it grow. if i had the chance, i would name it after you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There are a bunch of spots down there, it\u2019s like Hogwarts!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nickels Arcade, 2:00PM, 2\/2\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>after Marty Rubin: &#8220;lies bewitch us, if we want to be bewitched&#8221;&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i have inherited an incurable insomnia from you, in the way your absence keeps me up at night. sleep is a luxury you have stolen&#8211;you leave me with nothing more than pity, a memory woven in moonlight and encased in spider&#8217;s silk: <em>i closed my eyes and breathed a prayer and you were there<\/em>, my voice a siren, your mouth a shipwreck. there are ninety-nine names for God and yours is not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are you from? Virginia. DC area, Arlington. I\u2019m sure you get this question a lot, but do you live close to the cemetery? Uh, yeah I\u2019d say it\u2019s about a ten minute drive\u2026 EECS Building, 3:30PM, 11\/21\/2024 i met you for the first time as a stranger. we talked about the weather and your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"featured_media":24293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2077,1257,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772"}],"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\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26800,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions\/26800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}