{"id":276,"date":"2016-01-28T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/?p=276"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:21:34","slug":"tabula-rasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/2016\/01\/28\/tabula-rasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabula Rasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Zavier Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the many rocks and boulders,<br \/>\ntainted with years<br \/>\nof blue and purple elemental abuse,<br \/>\nthere I lay with a clean slate<br \/>\nresting as my torso.<br \/>\nOpen to metal nails and hammers, ready for the cuneiform<br \/>\ndepicting my fate<br \/>\nof nocturnal nights,<br \/>\naddictions to footnotes,<br \/>\nwords and the other.<br \/>\nPuncturing in the purple scars<br \/>\nadorned on my body that<br \/>\nswell from creamy pus.<br \/>\nMy thoughts ready to pop<br \/>\nfrom its secured interior,<br \/>\ndestined to inhabit<br \/>\nthe many halls of memory.<br \/>\nStand me up against the Old Testaments.<br \/>\nI become sacred word,<br \/>\nrepeated into the air,<br \/>\nliving among gods and clouds,<br \/>\nbecoming immortal through<br \/>\nTitles and By: lines.<br \/>\nShare me with the world,<br \/>\nfor I am the tablet hidden in your basement,<br \/>\nchoking on black dust<br \/>\nbut growing as the myth<br \/>\nthat will carry on<br \/>\nfor lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Sight-e1454012551403.jpg\" alt=\"Sight Brandy Sanamo\" width=\"225\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sight<br \/>Brandy Sanamo<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/mosaic\/files\/Sight-1-e1454012665716.jpg\" alt=\"Sight Brady Sanamo\" width=\"223\" height=\"369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 223px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 223\/369;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sight<br \/>Brady Sanamo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zavier Davis Under the many rocks and boulders, tainted with years of blue and purple elemental abuse, there I lay with a clean slate resting as my torso. 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