{"id":718,"date":"2019-04-30T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/?page_id=718"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:10:38","slug":"griffin-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/poetry\/griffin-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><strong>Unspoken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">My body.<br \/>\nContracts like a spring.<br \/>\nAs if hands<br \/>\npush inward from both sides.<br \/>\nThe only thing<br \/>\nthat stops the spiral from<br \/>\nleaping.<br \/>\nTwo fleshy manacles<br \/>\nholding it in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">As I follow the lines<br \/>\nof a tiled floor<br \/>\nlike a fucked up maze.<br \/>\nStaving off the feeling of<br \/>\neyes that burn into<br \/>\nmy chest.<br \/>\nDoing all they can<br \/>\nto pry open my ribs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">I can feel the hands slipping<br \/>\nand about to unwind<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\">coil after<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px\">coil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Unraveling like wet string.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong><em>Collin Anderson Memorial Award for Poetry Winner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-696 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/04\/IMG_20180722_232056_261-1.jpg 1437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/>Griffin Smith<\/strong> is a senior at SUNY Cortland majoring in New Communication Media Studies. After college he plans to pursue his passion in filmmaking and writing. He loves the idea of creating from scratch and seeing the growth. Griffin has no doubt he has found his calling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/previous-issues\/crystallize-review-2019\/poetry\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unspoken My body. Contracts like a spring. As if hands push inward from both sides. The only thing that stops the spiral from leaping. Two fleshy manacles holding it in place. As I follow the lines of a tiled floor like a fucked up maze. Staving off the feeling of eyes that burn into my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"parent":692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-718","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}