{"id":3815,"date":"2025-05-03T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=3815"},"modified":"2025-05-09T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:16:30","slug":"plaintive-by-devon-balwit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/plaintive-by-devon-balwit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Plaintive&#8221; by Devon Balwit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I was covered with my excrement like a sheep \u2026<br \/>The sorcerer did not handle well my illness. <br \/>And the necromancer could not make an end of my malady.\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(from The Wisdom of Tabi-Utul-Ellil) <\/em><\/p>\n\n<h3>Matted and spavined, what else can I do but <br \/>await the herd dog? I totter where he drives <br \/>me, a bleat in the crowd. Always the same <br \/>trough, the same swilling heads. Why a <br \/>sheep, not a raptor? Why sick with no cure? <br \/>Today I chafe. Others, I\u2019m content to clump <br \/>among field grass. Either way comes the <br \/>blade.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Devon Balwit<\/strong> [she\/her] walks in all weather and edits for <em>Asimov Press<\/em>, <em>Asterisk Magazine<\/em>, and <em>Works in Progress<\/em>. For more, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pelapdx.wixsite.com\/devonbalwitpoet\">https:\/\/pelapdx.wixsite.com\/devonbalwitpoet<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was covered with my excrement like a sheep \u2026The sorcerer did not handle well my illness. And the necromancer could not make an end of my malady.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(from The Wisdom of Tabi-Utul-Ellil) Matted and spavined, what else can I do but await the herd dog? I totter where he drives me, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/plaintive-by-devon-balwit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Plaintive&#8221; by Devon Balwit&#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-3815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3815","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=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}