{"id":3576,"date":"2019-07-14T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T00:34:36","slug":"the-goddess-becomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/07\/14\/the-goddess-becomes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goddess Becomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a pleasure to burn. Of the eight, it was my most beautiful arm: the hillside slope of the shoulder, the tender elbow, that lilting wrist, narrow yet invincible. Had he seen it in the dance, or still in his Sistine posture, even Michelangelo would have known God is a woman. <\/p>\n

The downy hair went up first, and then the skin, the perfect fingernails, the sizzling fat and muscle. There is always a relaxation in admitting the truth, even a truth that smells like sulfur and charcoal: I am the flames as much as I was ever the arm.<\/strong>
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\nFrom Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/p>\n

Brook\u2019s poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Empty Mirror Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, MoonPark Review, Little India, D\u0103mf\u012bno, Nowhere Poetry, Rat’s Ass Review, Peacock Journal, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies. In 2013, she and her husband Gaurav created Blue Planet Journal, which she edits and writes for. She holds an MFA from Lindenwood University, teaches poetry and creative writing at a community college, and is writing a novel. See more at www.brook-bhagat.com or reach her on Twitter at @BrookBhagat.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a pleasure to burn. Of the eight, it was my most beautiful arm: the hillside slope of the shoulder, the tender elbow, that lilting wrist, narrow yet invincible. Had he seen it in the dance, or still in his Sistine posture, even Michelangelo would have known God is a woman. The downy hair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2135,4499,7333,959,1847,1094,3218,5832,108,6992,41,1291,8005,8010,1538,5945,8009,2412,2136,8008,2014,8006,8011,7433,2382,8007],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-charcoal","tag-dance","tag-elbow","tag-fat","tag-fingernails","tag-flames","tag-god","tag-goddess","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hillside","tag-michelangelo","tag-muscle","tag-pleasure","tag-posture","tag-relaxation","tag-shoulder","tag-sistine","tag-skin","tag-slope","tag-sulfur","tag-the-truth","tag-woman","tag-wrist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}