{"id":4394,"date":"2016-08-12T15:57:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T16:11:03","slug":"elizabeth-ardens-the-red-door-jennifer-macbain-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4394","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Arden\u2019s: The Red Door &#8211; Jennifer MacBain-Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unscrew a box of white gold:<br \/>\nsmell the money and sing money<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nwhile trained women who majored<br \/>\nin \u201cClassics\u201d stride pencil skirted across a<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ncrystal sparkle dance floor. No<br \/>\nsweat, no fingerprints, but an over<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nsexed environment conceals<br \/>\nthe conflated male hair bun.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nCraft service carbohydrates explode<br \/>\ninto TMZ\u2019s monthly hate list.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRobotic dust mites hide in velvet\u2014<br \/>\nthis is Vanderbilt wealth and<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRhode Island anorexia.<br \/>\nChampagne bottles stain the grand piano:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nno coasters here. Split screen cut<br \/>\nto camera two: a red<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ncorvette screams down<br \/>\na wetted down Fifth Avenue<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\ndrowning under moonlight.<br \/>\nLike blood, red looks black at night<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nno speeding tickets are given:<br \/>\nit\u2019s a closed set.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nJennifer MacBain-Stephens went to NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in the DC area. She is the author of eight chapbooks and two full length poetry collections forthcoming from Yellow Chair Review and Stalking Horse Press. Her chapbook \u201cClown Machine\u201d recently came out from Grey Book Press.  Recent work can be seen or is forthcoming at <em>Jet Fuel Review, Lime Hawk, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Queen Mob\u2019s Teahouse, Inter\/rupture, Poor Claudia, concis,<\/em> and https:\/\/apps.rackspace.com\/versions\/webmail\/11.3.12-RC\/images\/blank.gifdecomP. Visit: http:\/\/jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unscrew a box of white gold: smell the money and sing money &nbsp; while trained women who majored in \u201cClassics\u201d stride pencil skirted across a &nbsp; crystal sparkle dance floor. No sweat, no fingerprints, but an over &nbsp; sexed environment conceals the conflated male hair bun. &nbsp; Craft service carbohydrates explode into TMZ\u2019s monthly hate [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230,149],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-red-door-by-si-griffiths","tag-wikicommons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","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=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4399,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/4399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}