{"id":14083,"date":"2026-02-18T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:33:52","slug":"how-we-left-winter-yim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"how we left &#8211; Winter Yim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"45px\"} -->\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:spacer -->\n<!-- wp:verse -->\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"> i slink from bed\n&amp; i drag my limbs\npast your grey New Balances\n&amp; your slight cache\nof a stomach,\nyour black inked star &amp;\ncrescent, sternum\nstretched &amp; anxious\nthoughts tear rings\noff Saturn &amp; i want\nto  slow     down. so\nmy footsteps don\u2019t screech\nthe northern sun\nexposed floorboards\n&amp; inside, i weep\nglass shards, my guts\nchurn butter &amp; my legs\nretreat into\nthe clanking of paper\nice skating the table\n&amp; i\u2019ve seen you\nso far   &amp; i start\nto write   &amp; you\nsleep in. your breaths\nare the moments\t\nbefore a tea\nkettle whistle\n&amp; already\nare you thinking\nhow to find a way out?<\/pre>\n<!-- \/wp:verse -->\n\n<!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"45px\"} -->\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:spacer -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Winter Yim (they\/them) is an emerging writer originally from Massachusetts and currently based in New Jersey. Their writing covers themes such as home and belonging, identity, and queerness.<br><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i slink from bed &amp; i drag my limbs past your grey New Balances &amp; your slight cache of a stomach, your black inked star &amp; crescent, sternum stretched &amp; anxious thoughts tear rings off Saturn &amp; i want to slow down. so my footsteps don\u2019t screech the northern sun exposed floorboards &amp; inside, i [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-medieval-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14338,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}