{"id":3739,"date":"2023-11-27T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=3739"},"modified":"2025-05-11T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T20:19:32","slug":"this-is-my-secret-work-to-be-worthy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/this-is-my-secret-work-to-be-worthy\/","title":{"rendered":"&amp; this is my secret work, to be worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&amp; this is my secret work, to be worthy<\/h2>\n<p><em>After a line by Ada <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lim\u00f3n<\/span><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p>nat raum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&amp; these are the wires between<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">synapses that make me want.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this is my secret heart, made<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of sugarglass even though\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">i sheathe her in steel for show.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this is my covert undercarriage<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of fine porcelain, polished daily.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this is my wishing to be wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4018 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2023\/11\/Alternate-headshot-small_raum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>nat raum<\/strong> (b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They\u2019re the editor-in-chief of the fifth wheel press and the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you stupid slut<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the abyss is staring back<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">random access memory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and several others. Find them online: natraum.com\/links<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&amp; this is my secret work, to be worthy After a line by Ada Lim\u00f3n nat raum &nbsp; &amp; these are the wires between synapses that make me want. this <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/this-is-my-secret-work-to-be-worthy\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6645,"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\/3739"}],"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\/6645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3739\/revisions\/5564"}],"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=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}