{"id":1630,"date":"2013-03-06T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:01:52","slug":"the-end-of-the-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-end-of-the-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/about\/author-biographies\/\"><em>Katie Kapugi\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ankles fettered to twisted sheets,<br \/>\nyour inclination, the angle<br \/>\nof your body in golden light,<br \/>\nis slanted\u2013\u2028crossed by the crooked shadow of bent blinds,\u2028A positive declination on a lumpy hotel mattress.<\/p>\n<p>You seem a creature distant,<br \/>\nunscathed by the dewy freckling<br \/>\nof sweat on the bridge of your nose,<br \/>\nthe horizontal intensity of light<br \/>\nin your magnetic blue eyes<br \/>\nbrings ice to my marrow.<\/p>\n<p>We had been like a compass disrupted<br \/>\nby currents\u2014whirling east, west<br \/>\nwith our legs\u2014spinning north, south<br \/>\nwith our hips\u2014undulating in<br \/>\ntotal intensity until the jolting end\u2013<\/p>\n<p>when your attraction became repulsion<br \/>\na chasm of foreign fields, of wayward worlds\u2013<br \/>\nyou sit up, turn away, the elements of our tryst<br \/>\nno longer alluring, you wear self-loathing\u2013<br \/>\nvertical and tense\u2013in the muscle of your back<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Kapugi\u00a0 Ankles fettered to twisted sheets, your inclination, the angle of your body in golden light, is slanted\u2013\u2028crossed by the crooked shadow of bent blinds,\u2028A positive declination on a lumpy hotel mattress. You seem a creature distant, unscathed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/the-end-of-the-affair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}