{"id":2108,"date":"2021-11-30T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2108"},"modified":"2021-12-04T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:43:35","slug":"scorpio-cento","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/scorpio-cento\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpio Cento"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2337 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/Young_russian_witch-2048x1265.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Scorpio Cento<br \/><\/strong>Lauren Campbell<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>From the poetry of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, Ezra Pound, Terrance Hayes, and Denise Levertov<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">I have gone out, a possessed witch\u00a0<br \/>in my austere black uniform,<br \/>a candle in the thighs<br \/>like an eye between two white lids that will not shut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">If I\u2019ve killed one man, I\u2019ve killed two\u2014<br \/>whack their boys\u2019 limbs,<br \/>fold in their arms<br \/>as easily as an old woman reads a palm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Black sweet blood mouthfuls<br \/>of their most secret heart,<br \/>the aguey tendon, the sin, the sin.<br \/>It throbs in the teeth,<br \/>wakening senses to bite on<br \/>the tongues of hell.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone<br \/>I break out of my body this way:<br \/>all night dark wings,<br \/>my head a moon,<br \/>my selves dissolving, old whore petticoats\u2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">levitating a numb minute in the updraft.<br \/>I want to be the wind and I want to fight off the wind<br \/>through the stretched night,<br \/>lingering<br \/>scintillas<br \/>of a snuffed candle<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">If I\u2019m alive now, then I was dead.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><strong>Lauren Campbell<\/strong> is a graduate of the Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at the University of Baltimore.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scorpio CentoLauren Campbell From the poetry of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, Ezra Pound, Terrance Hayes, and Denise Levertov I have gone out, a possessed <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/scorpio-cento\/\">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\/2108"}],"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=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2108\/revisions\/2339"}],"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=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}