{"id":5693,"date":"2019-01-27T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2019-01-27T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:26:20","slug":"obsidian-tejan-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=5693","title":{"rendered":"OBSIDIAN &#8211; Tejan Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer and a hymn to the heavens<br \/>\nGran offers before preparing<br \/>\nfor the hurricane,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nscolding me on manners<br \/>\nand good housekeeping.<br \/>\nBorn a burden, womb carrying<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nthe history of ancestors. She tells me<br \/>\nwe can make this journey<br \/>\nwith spirit and good company.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut, who will remember you?<br \/>\nHer eyes fixed on the mountains,<br \/>\nholding trauma,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nlike an infant to be rocked.<br \/>\nSmall black stone, rubbed<br \/>\nover ovaries.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5802\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nn-tejan-green-headshot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"216\">Tejan Green is a New York based poet and English lecturer. Her most recent creative project is a co-authored poetry collection on love and loss entitled <em>We Were Us <\/em>(Teng Publishing 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer and a hymn to the heavens Gran offers before preparing for the hurricane, &nbsp; scolding me on manners and good housekeeping. Born a burden, womb carrying &nbsp; the history of ancestors. She tells me we can make this journey with spirit and good company. &nbsp; But, who will remember you? Her eyes fixed [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-rainbow-obsidian-butterfly-by-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","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=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}