{"id":2546,"date":"2023-04-19T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:58:16","slug":"immigrant-staircase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/immigrant-staircase\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Staircase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Rebecca Nye, MPH<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>School of Medicine and Public Health<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>2023<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Poem<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Icy cool in sticky<br \/>\nJune, the russet ceramic tiles sealed with crumbling<br \/>\ncaulk welcomed the meeting of a chestnut burnished banister<br \/>\naccompanied by brushed-iron balusters knotted like the trunks of maples.<br \/>\nDimpled hands trembled with might up each step, fingers clutching<br \/>\ntextured cigarette-perfumed walls, navigating the jungle<br \/>\ngym that was the switchback<br \/>\nstaircase.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway up,<br \/>\nsunlight illuminated<br \/>\nthe crimson and turquoise stained<br \/>\nglass panes in the curved nook, and when we were tall enough,<br \/>\nour auburn curls, too. How did those <em>Picea pungens <\/em>pinecones come to be?<br \/>\nSometimes summertime ivy meandered about the window, veiny spinach salad,<br \/>\nwhile olive mosses lingered lonely in ever-damp pavement cracks below.<br \/>\nCars whizzed past on the street beyond the pine,<br \/>\nbuzzing metallic invasive emerald<br \/>\nash borers flitting by.<\/p>\n<p>The summit wasn\u2019t far beyond<br \/>\nthe curve, but a pair of ornamental trumpet-brass deer,<br \/>\na bewildering buck and doe duo, reminded us to slow and spin.<br \/>\nOn the way down, rushing like Lake Michigan waves, following the tumbling<br \/>\ncamel carpeting, that one step did our socked-feet in, and Oma yelled, \u201ccareful!\u201d again. Suddenly scooped onto her bouncing knees on the lowest step, crinkling<br \/>\ncousin eyelashes kissed flush as her peppery<br \/>\ncinnamon-gum mouth jingled with a<br \/>\nGerman nursery rhyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Nye, MPH School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem &nbsp; Icy cool in sticky June, the russet ceramic tiles sealed with crumbling caulk welcomed the meeting of a chestnut burnished banister accompanied by brushed-iron balusters knotted like the trunks of maples. Dimpled hands trembled with might up each step, fingers clutching textured cigarette-perfumed&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/immigrant-staircase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}