{"id":576,"date":"2013-04-17T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/?page_id=576"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:13:37","slug":"poetry-abriana-jette","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/current-issue-2\/poetry-abriana-jette\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Abriana Jett\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Abriana Jett\u00e9 is a poet, essayist, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in the American Literary Review, Empirical Magazine, dirtCakes, and many other journals. Currently, she teaches for the College of Staten Island, Kingsborough Community College, and for the nonprofit organization Sponsors for Educational Opportunity.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>THE DRIFT<\/h1>\n<p>Four o\u2019clock in the not<br \/>\nyet evening and I am thinking<br \/>\nof fixing a drink. Sound of ice<br \/>\nagainst the bottom of the glass<\/p>\n<p>and I wonder what Dad<br \/>\nwas thinking. Some mornings<br \/>\nthe white throated sparrow\u2019s child<br \/>\nmasters her mother&#8217;s song.<\/p>\n<p>They sing. I listen, sip,<br \/>\nsearch for nests between leaves.<br \/>\nTheir whistling stirs the breeze.<br \/>\nHe said if you say you\u2019re happy<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re happy. Mom says I<br \/>\nhave too much man in me,<br \/>\nmeaning I\u2019m too much<br \/>\nlike him. And anyway, I fight it<\/p>\n<p>or tell her in college everyone\u00a0I knew<br \/>\ncarried a water bottle\u00a0filled with vodka<br \/>\nin their purse to class, say there is<br \/>\nnothing wrong with wine<\/p>\n<p>before dinner. She worries. Watches.<br \/>\nSearches for anything she can find.<br \/>\nBut there is nothing\u00a0to worry over,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve already told you about the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abriana Jett\u00e9 is a poet, essayist, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in the American Literary Review, Empirical Magazine, dirtCakes, and many other journals. Currently, she teaches for the College of Staten Island, Kingsborough Community College, and for the nonprofit organization Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. &nbsp; THE DRIFT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3755,"featured_media":0,"parent":522,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions\/704"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}