{"id":34,"date":"2009-04-11T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:01:37","slug":"shim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Shim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I release myself<br \/>\nto the woman in white.<br \/>\nThe table beneath me, warm,<br \/>\nmy skin from the hot springs pool,<br \/>\nwarm, and now Shim\u2019s hands<br \/>\ninsistent in their own heat.<br \/>\nWe do not speak,<br \/>\nonly nod and bow,<br \/>\nas she bends to loosen<br \/>\nthe cold, knotted cord of my spine.<br \/>\nI breathe to the heels of her palms.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I return to the pools<br \/>\nand the other women.<br \/>\nWe steam in silence like pale,<br \/>\nexotic plums, sweat<br \/>\nslipping from our skins,<br \/>\nappetites forgotten, save one,<br \/>\nand I say the name that makes me forget \u2013<br \/>\nShim,<br \/>\nShim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney I release myself to the woman in white. The table beneath me, warm, my skin from the hot springs pool, warm, and now Shim\u2019s hands insistent in their own heat. We do not speak, only nod and bow, as she bends to loosen the cold, knotted cord of my spine. I breathe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shim","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}