{"id":26857,"date":"2025-02-27T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26857"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:00:32","slug":"asoss-46-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/02\/27\/asoss-46-restraint\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 46 | Restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Me when I can have a girl dinner without a boyfriend screaming in my ear\u2026 like, it\u2019s just noodles and butter!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall, 5:30PM, 2\/5\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>when the earth was born it appeared purple in the sky, like a blood clot against the skin, a bruise never fully healed. in an instant, an element so volatile it recolored the planet&#8217;s iris. <em>an oxygen holocaust.<\/em> do plants remember? violet fades to verdigris, the seed a photograph, the stamen a scar. lavender grows in my backyard as a gentle reminder of the transgressions i&#8217;ve accumulated. <em>act the saint, so you can turn me into the sinner&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She used to stay with me ever since I was born, I mean, like, I\u2019ve stayed with her for the past nineteen years\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Science Learning Center, 2:30PM, 2\/5\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>millions will die in this false spring, in the eye of storm and shadow. with the grace of a twig contorting in a wildfire, <em>the passage from person to thing<\/em>, a frozen pipeline, a burst eardrum. even after a flood, the water reconfigures itself. in a thousand years there will be villages of coral nested in your ribcage and schools of salmon swimming through your skull. in a thousand years man will marvel at the atlantis you have created, a legacy beyond flesh and bone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Go ahead\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No, I could talk about it for hours\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014and I want to hear it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Michigan Union, 11:00AM, 2\/20\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>the diary of a lover is filled with ellipses&#8211;it hurts too much to end even a sentence about you. we are dust mites floating together and the sunbeam is our domain. in this world, a glimpse of the heavens: what guides us also restrains us, but this is a good restraint, this fusion of you and me&#8230; consider the weight of the world in one hand and your fingers clasped in the other. if nothing lasts forever, maybe i can be nothing with you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me when I can have a girl dinner without a boyfriend screaming in my ear\u2026 like, it\u2019s just noodles and butter! Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall, 5:30PM, 2\/5\/2025 when the earth was born it appeared purple in the sky, like a blood clot against the skin, a bruise never fully healed. in an instant, an element so [&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\/26857"}],"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=26857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26873,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857\/revisions\/26873"}],"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=26857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}