{"id":108,"date":"2022-08-04T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=108"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:04:37","slug":"the-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/chapter\/the-butterfly\/","title":{"raw":"The Butterfly is Victim to My Haste","rendered":"The Butterfly is Victim to My Haste"},"content":{"raw":"Zhuang Zhou, the butterfly is victim to my haste.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen the dragon\u2019s-mouth and grass pink open in the wetland and I, driving in my car,\r\n\r\nwinding home, slowing before the cracked pavement at the sunken train track, hear the pock\r\n\r\nagainst the windscreen.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>bruxist, Tiger Swallowtail<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>sick with dice<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>leaps in jags like a burst kite<\/em><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nstudding its soured eggs in a canopy of thought. I see my mother on the threshold,\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">come in, come in.<\/p>\r\nMany years have passed since, but now the house is shelled out and the thick clear plastic\r\n\r\nbillows against the bare frames. The floorboards upstairs are pried out and I see the floating\r\n\r\ndoors of our bedrooms. Your sister is here somewhere, she says.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMy mother grips me outside, trembling at the monstrous thing.\r\n\r\nShe sobs\u2014\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">What can <em>we <strong>do<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>","rendered":"<p>Zhuang Zhou, the butterfly is victim to my haste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the dragon\u2019s-mouth and grass pink open in the wetland and I, driving in my car,<\/p>\n<p>winding home, slowing before the cracked pavement at the sunken train track, hear the pock<\/p>\n<p>against the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>bruxist, Tiger Swallowtail<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>sick with dice<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>leaps in jags like a burst kite<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>studding its soured eggs in a canopy of thought. I see my mother on the threshold,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">come in, come in.<\/p>\n<p>Many years have passed since, but now the house is shelled out and the thick clear plastic<\/p>\n<p>billows against the bare frames. The floorboards upstairs are pried out and I see the floating<\/p>\n<p>doors of our bedrooms. Your sister is here somewhere, she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My mother grips me outside, trembling at the monstrous thing.<\/p>\n<p>She sobs\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">What can <em>we <strong>do<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["jacob-saunders"],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[70],"license":[],"class_list":["post-108","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-jacob-saunders"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/revisions\/119"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/108\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.upei.ca\/artsreview-xi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}