{"id":2497,"date":"2025-02-10T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:15:28","slug":"the-middle-ages-by-luci-arbus-scandiffio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Middle Ages&#8221; by Luci Arbus-Scandiffio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day was somebody\u2019s birthday<br>But they didn\u2019t know whose<\/p>\n<p>So you wake up <br>Smelling like wood chips<br>Picking the straw from your sleeve<\/p>\n<p>Another day<br>Another boiled potato<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHear ye, hear ye\u201d<br>AKA \u201clook alive\u201d and \u201ceyes on me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imagine staring out the window<br>The sky the color of lima beans<\/p>\n<p>I would have loved it<br>A whole life in the middle<\/p>\n<p>Snow piling on the backs of sheep<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Bennington Review, Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest<\/em>, and <em>Denver Quarterly<\/em>. She has two lesbian moms and is originally from New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instagram: @luciana_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you wake up \/ Smelling like woodchips \/ Picking the straw from your sleeve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}