{"id":2842,"date":"2022-12-07T23:58:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=2842"},"modified":"2022-12-07T23:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:58:45","slug":"chalk-hills-by-emily-bilman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/chalk-hills-by-emily-bilman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chalk-Hills&#8221; by Emily Bilman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The silk-chalk in the new-born bay feels\nlike soft talcum powder under our steps.\n\nLike the wind-swirled primeval sea-sands \nunder the mutinous seas, the grated chalk\n\npowder now filling our hands is inodorous\nyet heals the open wound in your hand.\n\nHigh waves gnaw the chalk-hills, shape\nthem into convex moons. Wind-gusts\n\nsweep the seas as in creation day, sculpting \nthe limestone layers into sheer geometries\n\nlike the transient dust that shaped our forms\nfrom minerals, oxygen, iron, and carbon.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emily Bilman, PhD<\/strong> writes in Geneva, CH. Her dissertation, <em>The Psychodynamics of Poetry<\/em> was published by Lambert Academic in 2010 and <em>Modern Ekphrasis<\/em> by Peter Lang in 2013. Her poetry books, <em>A Woman by A Well <\/em>(2015), <em>Resilience<\/em> (2015), <em>The Threshold of Broken Waters <\/em>(2018) and <em>Apperception <\/em>(2020) were all published by Troubador, UK. She blogs on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emiliebilman.wix.com\/emily-bilman\"><em> <\/em>http:\/\/www.emiliebilman.wix.com\/emily-bilman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silk-chalk in the new-born bay feels like soft talcum powder under our steps. Like the wind-swirled primeval sea-sands under the mutinous seas, the grated chalk powder now filling our hands is inodorous yet heals the open wound in your hand. High waves gnaw the chalk-hills, shape them into convex moons. Wind-gusts sweep the seas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/chalk-hills-by-emily-bilman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Chalk-Hills&#8221; by Emily Bilman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2842","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}