{"id":32,"date":"2001-01-31T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-31T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2001-01-31T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-31T17:54:00","slug":"32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>In the ironbound section near Avenue L<br \/>\nwhere the Portuguese women come to see what you sell<br \/>\nthe clouds so low the morning so slow<br \/>\nas the wires cut through the sky<\/p>\n<p>The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground<br \/>\ninto little triangles and the rails run round<br \/>\nthrough the rust and the heat<br \/>\nthe light and sweet coffee color of her skin<\/p>\n<p>Bound up in wire and fate<br \/>\nwatching her walk him up to the gate<br \/>\nin front of the ironbound school yard.<\/p>\n<p>Kids will grow like weeds on a fence<br \/>\nShe says they look for the light they try to make sense.<br \/>\nThey come up through the cracks<br \/>\nLike grass on the tracks<br \/>\nShe touches him goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Steps off the curb and into the street<br \/>\nthe blood and feathers near her feet<br \/>\ninto the ironbound market<\/p>\n<p>In the ironbound section near Avenue L<br \/>\nwhere the Portuguese women come to see what you sell<br \/>\nthe clouds so low the morning so slow<br \/>\nas the wires cut through the sky<\/p>\n<p>She stops at the stall<br \/>\nfingers the ring<br \/>\nopens her purse<br \/>\nfeels a longing<br \/>\naway from the ironbound border<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Suzanna Vega, &#8220;Ironbound\/Fancy Poultry&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut through the sky The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round through the rust and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}