{"id":2081,"date":"2021-11-30T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2081"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:12:24","slug":"aubade-to-my-lovers-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/aubade-to-my-lovers-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubade to My Lover&#8217;s Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2267 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Koi_TattooCrop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"229\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Aubade to My Lover\u2019s Tattoo<br \/><\/strong>Larissa Larson<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Salt-crusted eyes wake to the wave<br \/>that is your back, a hot spring cave<br \/>of restless sheets. The infinite Pacific<br \/>between our bodies, but the intimate<br \/>undercurrent of your sea legs curl<br \/>to fit mine. I am a damned girl,<br \/>but skill to build made me wiser.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The cat cries, so you rise<br \/>a geyser, tall glass of steam.<br \/>My body still rock, but dream<br \/>my soul koi swimming above<br \/>your heart: red tender flesh of<br \/>tattooed fins and scales tucked.<br \/>All I want is to bring you luck.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-medium-gray-background-color has-medium-gray-color is-style-wide\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Larissa Larson<\/strong> attends Hamline University\u2019s MFA Creative Writing program in St. Paul, MN, and assists with\u00a0<em>Water~Stone Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Runestone<\/em>\u00a0<em>Literary Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Twitter: @larissathepoet<br \/>Instagram: larissathepoet<br \/>Facebook: Larissa Larson<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubade to My Lover\u2019s TattooLarissa Larson Salt-crusted eyes wake to the wavethat is your back, a hot spring caveof restless sheets. The infinite Pacificbetween our bodies, but the intimateundercurrent of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/aubade-to-my-lovers-tattoo\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2081\/revisions\/2269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}