{"id":5675,"date":"2013-11-24T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2013-10-28T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:12:04","slug":"carissa-callison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/carissa-callison\/","title":{"rendered":"Carissa Callison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parting Ou<\/strong>t<\/p>\n<p>The body is like a car, and if you don\u2019t use it, it dies.<br \/>\nI spent too much time in my head, body puttered out,<br \/>\nbecame just parts to be junked out<\/p>\n<p>My 3rd grade teacher pickles my brain like blue ribbon cucumbers<br \/>\ncarefully planted and nurtured.<\/p>\n<p>The first riding instructor I had carefully separates<br \/>\nheels from feet, mounts them like the trophies in my childhood room.<\/p>\n<p>In a dirty paper sack writhe my newly found vocal cords<br \/>\ncarried by the man who also ripped out my first set.<\/p>\n<p>My right hand clutches a pen in a lavender filled glass jar,<br \/>\nand is spirited away by fairies, or maybe the English professor<br \/>\nwho taught that hand to write; I never could tell them <a href=\"https:\/\/drdavidbrady.com\/tramadol-online\/\">buy ultram online overnight<\/a> apart.<\/p>\n<p>Atop crystals in a wine glass perch my eyes,<br \/>\nmy father claiming the part of me that undoubtedly came from him.<\/p>\n<p>My crooked middle finger is plucked by the dear friend<br \/>\nwho endured many drunken fuck you\u2019s, shot glass<br \/>\nand Everclear waiting to preserve those moments forever.<\/p>\n<p>As each part of me disappears like wedding cake I\u2019ll never taste,<br \/>\nmy quivering heart sits alone, unclaimed.<br \/>\nMaybe it\u2019s what I\u2019ve always wanted and never realized;<br \/>\na heart and consciousness free of that awkward shell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carissa Callison<\/strong> was born and raised on the wet side of Washington. She attended the University of Montana Western and received a BA in biology. While in college, she rediscovered a passion for words and hasn\u2019t looked back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Parting Out The body is like a car, and if you don\u2019t use it, it dies. I spent too much time in my head, body puttered out, became just parts to be junked out My 3rd grade teacher pickles my brain like blue ribbon cucumbers carefully planted and nurtured. The first riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}