{"id":1279,"date":"2019-07-31T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T20:07:15","slug":"were-the-opposite-of-birds-by-julie-howd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We\u2019re the opposite of birds&#8221; by Julie Howd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\">\n<div class=\"poemscroll\" style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\n<h4>We\u2019re the opposite of birds,<\/h4>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">We talk\nIn formation. The data is enough\nTo drag you down.\nDo your eyes cast shadows?\nWhen you step into the sun do you become\nA radio? There\u2019s one\nLast ladder to climb, that\u2019s it. Did you think\nYou were here to merely coexist with moss?\nTo eat and starve and lunge\nAt the moon? There is no such thing as.\nWhen we woke up we were, and when we\nClose our eyes again we collapse\nInto a particle.\nIt isn\u2019t even chemistry. Stretch your arms\nAll you\u2019d like, you won\u2019t hoist\nYour way into a new dimension, to become\nThe tree, to become the universe\nOf ants. We fold our napkins into &amp;s.\nNot sex, not the weather.\nWhat do you think about this?\nWe are born in a hospital. We fly\nNorth for the winter.\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Julie Howd is the author of <em>Talking from the Knees Up<\/em> (dancing girl press, 2018). She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the James A. Michener Center. Her work can be found in <em>Sixth Finch, Inter|rupture, Forklift, Ohio,<\/em> and other journals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry by Julie Howd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}