{"id":3691,"date":"2011-10-21T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/10\/21\/the-locked-tiger-they-cant-lock-up\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:27:00","slug":"the-locked-tiger-they-cant-lock-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/10\/21\/the-locked-tiger-they-cant-lock-up\/","title":{"rendered":"the locked tiger they can\u2019t lock up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For What Binds Us<\/b>
\nBy Jane Hirshfield<\/i><\/p>\n

There are names for what binds us:
\nstrong forces, weak forces.
\nLook around, you can see them:
\nthe skin that forms in a half-empty cup,
\nnails rusting into the places they join,
\njoints dovetailed on their own weight.
\nThe way things stay so solidly
\nwherever they’ve been set down\u2014
\nand gravity, scientists say, is weak.
\nAnd see how the flesh grows back
\nacross a wound, with a great vehemence,
\nmore strong
\nthan the simple, untested surface before.
\nThere’s a name for it on horses,
\nwhen it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh,
\nas all flesh,
\nis proud of its wounds, wears them
\nas honors given out after battle,
\nsmall triumphs pinned to the chest\u2014
\nAnd when two people have loved each other
\nsee how it is like a
\nscar between their bodies,
\nstronger, darker, and proud;
\nhow the black cord makes of them a single fabric
\nthat nothing can tear or mend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For What Binds Us By Jane Hirshfield There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces. Look around, you can see them: the skin that forms in a half-empty cup, nails rusting into the places they join, joints dovetailed on their own weight. The way things stay so solidly wherever they’ve been set … Continue reading “the locked tiger they can\u2019t lock up”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[41,128],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}