{"id":3468,"date":"2015-10-25T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2015-10-25T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:30:47","slug":"my-chest-in-ruins-desiree-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"MY CHEST IN RUINS  &#8212; Desiree Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Window\u2019s cracked and we\u2019re here again, delicate<br \/>\nas the hurling of spoons, nerves raw down<br \/>\nto the nook. Yesterday I laid flat<br \/>\nagainst the sheets as if to say my road<br \/>\nis your road. Your pit is mine. As if<br \/>\nto say I am shovel stomaching the earth<br \/>\nif that is what you need. I, belly up. The ceiling,<br \/>\na lid shut against the stars. I, beached. My bones,<br \/>\nfor the slow kindling of your herbs. I<br \/>\nwon\u2019t mind smoke roosting in another<br \/>\nwoman\u2019s ear. We\u2019re here again, our song<br \/>\nbleached by a foreign light. Seeds<br \/>\nof glass root in our feet. Been years<br \/>\nsince you dreamed me fixed atop a horse,<br \/>\ngashing the purple skies. Been a day<br \/>\nsince you filled my mouth with mud. My<br \/>\nveins stand, lone dogs in my palm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3465 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nn-headshot-Desiree-Bailey.jpg\" alt=\"nn, headshot, Desiree Bailey\" width=\"181\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nn-headshot-Desiree-Bailey.jpg 1562w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nn-headshot-Desiree-Bailey-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nn-headshot-Desiree-Bailey-1201x1133.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nn-headshot-Desiree-Bailey-720x679.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/>Desiree Bailey was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in Queens, New York. She has an MFA from Brown University and has received fellowships from Princeton in Africa, the Norman Mailer Center and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. She is also a recipient of the Poets and Writers\u2019 Amy Award and a Pushcart nominee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Best American Poetry, Muzzle and Blackberry. She is currently the fiction editor at Kinfolks Quarterly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Window\u2019s cracked and we\u2019re here again, delicate as the hurling of spoons, nerves raw down to the nook. Yesterday I laid flat against the sheets as if to say my road is your road. Your pit is mine. As if to say I am shovel stomaching the earth if that is what you need. [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}