{"id":230,"date":"2012-01-22T17:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T01:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-01-22T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T02:25:11","slug":"another-story-about-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent piece in <a title=\"Mother Jones\" href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2004\/09\/way-it-was?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones <\/a>on the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade brought to mind my own memories of growing up in the silence around even the word &#8220;abortion.&#8221; This poem was first published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calyxpress.org\/journal.html\" target=\"_blank\">CALYX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ANOTHER STORY ABOUT LOVE<\/p>\n<p>I tell him about<\/p>\n<p>the story in my mother&#8217;s letter:<\/p>\n<p>a girl I knew last year in high school<\/p>\n<p>dead, a botched abortion,<\/p>\n<p>septicemia,<\/p>\n<p>the police phoning her parents,<\/p>\n<p>saying Come and get your kid.<\/p>\n<p>First time I&#8217;d heard the word<\/p>\n<p>abortion.<\/p>\n<p>I ask him what it means, hear<\/p>\n<p>the silence around it,<\/p>\n<p>his silence as we walk by the river<\/p>\n<p>late at night<\/p>\n<p>near his dorm room<\/p>\n<p>rank with beer bottles<\/p>\n<p>and dirty socks,<\/p>\n<p>where Eartha Kitt sang for us<\/p>\n<p>Birds do it, bees do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A wooden bench,<\/p>\n<p>the slop, slop of the river.<\/p>\n<p>His hand explores my thigh.<\/p>\n<p>My leg closes against him,<\/p>\n<p>saying no,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to die,<\/p>\n<p>not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent piece in Mother Jones on the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade brought to mind my own memories of growing up in the silence around even the word &#8220;abortion.&#8221; This poem was first published in CALYX. ANOTHER STORY ABOUT LOVE I tell him about the story in my mother&#8217;s letter: a girl I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}