{"id":2973,"date":"2024-04-24T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:36:21","slug":"transplanted-four-chambered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/transplanted-four-chambered\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplanted (Four-Chambered)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Daniel Rortvedt, OTD, OTR\/L<br \/>\nDepartment of Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy<br \/>\n2024<br \/>\nPoem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For John\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s built around us is affordance. A<br \/>\nstate of matter. An ice cube before it\u2019s frozen.<br \/>\nA mitral valve blushing into the left ventricle alongside<br \/>\nthe Allegheny River\u00a0roiling over at breakneck speed.<\/p>\n<p>Can you fathom the distance between somewhere else and\u00a0<em>here<\/em><br \/>\nthrough the revolving doors of his four-chambered heart? Guernsey cows<br \/>\nlying down in the field bringing on the evening rain. Rain<br \/>\noverrunning the roof of the farmhouse, overflowing the downspout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuminating\u201d reminding you of \u201cmarinating\u201d reminding<br \/>\nyou of \u201csteeps\u201d reminding you of \u201csituated\u201d reminding you of \u201ccircumstance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d never been to Pittsburgh. He\u2019d never<br \/>\nbeen to Pittsburgh (breaking into song now):<\/p>\n<p>his first heart the four chambers of it fishing in circles<\/p>\n<p>his first heart the four chambers of it becoming<\/p>\n<p>these four chambers<\/p>\n<p>his first heart the four chambers in perpetuity, swaying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Rortvedt, OTD, OTR\/L Department of Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy 2024 Poem &nbsp; For John\u00a0 What\u2019s built around us is affordance. A state of matter. An ice cube before it\u2019s frozen. A mitral valve blushing into the left ventricle alongside the Allegheny River\u00a0roiling over at breakneck speed. Can you fathom the distance between somewhere else and\u00a0here&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/transplanted-four-chambered\/\" 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":[83,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2024-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}