{"id":3601,"date":"2017-06-29T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2017-06-24T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T01:39:02","slug":"sara-pirkle-hughes-the-red-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"Sara Pirkle Hughes &#8220;The Red Devil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sara Pirkle Hughes<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Red Devil \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How slowly I swam<br \/>\nthrough months<br \/>\nof unknowing,<br \/>\nmy cheeks creased<br \/>\nfrom sleeping in chairs,<br \/>\nwhere bitterly I flailed<br \/>\nin rough-cut dreams<br \/>\nof myself while<br \/>\nthe crimson poison<br \/>\nsnaked through my veins,<br \/>\nand hospital machines<br \/>\nbreathed, singing<br \/>\ntheir winter fugues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Sara Pirkle Hughes<\/strong><\/span><em> is a Southern poet, an identical twin, a breast cancer survivor, and a <\/em>university<em> instructor.<a class=\"sbm-text link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saraphughes.com\/\" target=\"linked\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.saraphughes.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Pirkle Hughes The Red Devil \u00a0 How slowly I swam through months of unknowing, my cheeks creased from sleeping in chairs, where bitterly I flailed in rough-cut dreams of myself while the crimson poison snaked through my veins, and hospital machines breathed, singing their winter fugues. 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