{"id":3418,"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:54:47","slug":"magnolia-jitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/fall-2020\/magnolia-jitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Jitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Magnolia Jitter<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Bethlehem Zerihun<\/strong>\n \n December 1, 2020<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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I spent the summer<\/p>\n

eating in furious mouthfuls<\/p>\n

and running for<\/p>\n

hours in place.<\/p>\n

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For three months I jumped over my shadow<\/p>\n

and listened to the echo of<\/p>\n

the same song till the words sounded<\/p>\n

foreign and damaging.<\/p>\n

I spent all summer on my red-stained<\/p>\n

porch that glowed like heaven in the sun. I<\/p>\n

spent all summer with my neighbor\u2019s<\/p>\n

dog buried in my lap. I thought<\/p>\n

I ought to buy him a brush<\/p>\n

and set him a warm bath. I<\/p>\n

spent all of summer in the sticky Georgia air.<\/p>\n

All summer I slept, curled into myself,<\/p>\n

believing in the power of magnolias. Believing<\/p>\n

they could heal the jittering in my bones<\/p>\n

so, I planted my chair in their shadows<\/p>\n

and pressed my nose into their shape,<\/p>\n

asking: is there an answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Bethlehem Zerihun<\/strong> is a really cool person who does really cool things like study English (CTWR) at USC and write poems about magnolias. She is currently in her third year and serves as the Vice President of Professional Programming of Literary Society. 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