{"id":5347,"date":"2019-03-19T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:21:27","slug":"krishna-lewis-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"Krishna Lewis &#8220;Release&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Krishna Lewis<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Release<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It was not dust escaping to speak to us in ethereal shape, nor was it fine sand trilling<br \/>\nbetween our fingers to join her parents long ago buoyed forth on the river,<br \/>\nnor was it even the sludge of burnt and now-rancid ghee, as a cousin said it would be,<br \/>\nbut rather it was coarse, little, gravity-stricken stones that appeared in our cupped palms<br \/>\nas we dipped into the sack to release our mother into the Ganges,<br \/>\nand in the end, it was the end, for our hands sprung up without weight, without anchor.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Krishna Lewis <\/strong><\/span><em>is happily the Fellows Program Director at the Hutchins Center for African &amp; African American Research at Harvard University.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishna Lewis Release It was not dust escaping to speak to us in ethereal shape, nor was it fine sand trilling between our fingers to join her parents long ago buoyed forth on the river, nor was it even the sludge of burnt and now-rancid ghee, as a cousin said it would be, but rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[558],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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