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{"id":419,"date":"2013-10-13T22:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=419"},"modified":"2013-10-13T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T03:27:12","slug":"changeling-rhina-p-espaillat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Changeling &#8211; Rhina P. Espaillat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp outline\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">Changeling - Rhina P. Espaillat<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"vol_mp3j flipped\" id=\"vol_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"Changeling - Rhina P. Espaillat\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL29mdGhld2Vlay5vcmcvcG9ldHJ5L2F1ZGlvL0NoYW5nZWxpbmdfYnlfUmhpbmFfUF9Fc3BhaWxsYXQubXAz\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:75, height:'' };<\/script><br \/>\nRead by Shawna Monson<br \/>\nAudio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/features\/audioitem\/3444\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to tell myself she is not you,<br \/>\nthis sullen woman wearing Mama&#8217;s eyes<br \/>\nall wrong, whose every gesture rings untrue<br \/>\nand yet familiar. In your harsh disguise<br \/>\nI sometimes need to find you, sometimes fear<br \/>\nI will, if I look closely into her.<br \/>\nI want to tell myself you are not here,<br \/>\ntrapped in this parody of what you were,<br \/>\nbut love was never safe: it lives on danger,<br \/>\nfinds what can&#8217;t be found by any other<br \/>\npower on Earth or over it. This stranger<br \/>\nis you, is all the you there is, my mother<br \/>\nwhose gentler face is gone beyond recall,<br \/>\nand I must love you so, or not at all.<\/p>\n<p>(1991)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read by Shawna Monson Audio from Poetry Foundation I want to tell myself she is not you, this sullen woman wearing Mama&#8217;s eyes all wrong, whose every gesture rings untrue and yet familiar. In your harsh disguise I sometimes need to find you, sometimes fear I will, if I look closely into her. I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,92,93],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-poetry-foundation","tag-rhina-p-espaillat","tag-shawna-monson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}