{"id":163,"date":"2023-05-10T02:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T19:04:21","slug":"unearthed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/unearthed\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by Laine Derr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"TextLayer-container\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<p><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Near the end of life, days spent pruning<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">cherished flowers, she recounts how<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a father, medium-rare, smelled of whiskey<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">and cigars. How her better half, rolling<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">away, unearthed a much better half. How<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">she rustles bushes for hiding quails \u2013<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">aching for topknots. How leaders, hood<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">hustlers, born from broken beds, live<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">every day to the shortest. And how she\u2019s<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">nurtured figures of speech: a floating girl,<\/span><br class=\"textLayer--absolute\" role=\"presentation\" \/><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a tulip tree, a garden of pills and papers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TextLayer-container\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with <\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Recent work has appeared or is <\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">forthcoming from <em>Chapter House, ZYZZYVA, Hollins Critic, Oxford Magazine, Prairie<\/em> <\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><em>Schooner,<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/toc-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Laine Derr &nbsp; Near the end of life, days spent pruningcherished flowers, she recounts howa father, medium-rare, smelled of whiskeyand cigars. How her better half, rollingaway, unearthed a much better half. Howshe rustles bushes for hiding quails \u2013aching for topknots. How leaders, hoodhustlers, born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}