{"id":692,"date":"2007-04-02T19:46:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/02\/jillian-weise-incision\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:51:56","slug":"jillian-weise-incision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/02\/jillian-weise-incision\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian Weise, “Incision”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The nape of my neck is a tell.
\nOtherwise you wouldn’t notice
\nwith the layers of clothes: shirt,
\nvest, scarf, coat.<\/p>\n

Undressed, it’s a solitary hole
\nin the middle of a white wall, you
\ncan’t help but stare, what picture
\nhung there, what of, what color?<\/p>\n

It gets worse than this, you’ll
\nwant to see how far down it goes.
\nThe circular incision top and bottom,
\na line contained by points.<\/p>\n

The seal of an envelope, opened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From The Amputee’s Guide to Sex<\/i><\/a>, the debut collection from Weise, an actress and former editorial assistant at The Paris Review<\/i>. Though Weise is an amputee, her publisher advises readers “the poems have a life of their own” and are not necessarily autobiographical. See also “The Body in Pain<\/a>” and “Us, Like a Bad Mix Tape<\/a>,” along with several other poems on her Soft Skull Press page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nape of my neck is a tell. Otherwise you wouldn’t notice with the layers of clothes: shirt, vest, scarf, coat. Undressed, it’s a solitary hole in the middle of a white wall, you can’t help but stare, what picture hung there, what of, what color? It gets worse than this, you’ll want to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}