10 ways to crack an egg<\/strong><\/p>\n With our smallest hands it ends like this: Or subtler: Or bowl-smacker, the orthodox Or the one-mitt-smashers Or prod-and-pull, separate them, Or the thrown-in-from-chilled, Or the boiled egg, successful: And I, pinpricked, head and tail, 10 ways to crack an egg With our smallest hands it ends like this: Crumpled, a bewildered face, sticky fingers Or Running from a height,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[474,468,473,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCrumpled, a bewildered face, sticky fingers
\nOr
\nRunning from a height, from a hand it’s too easy to drop and –
\nWe know what follows.<\/p>\n
\nThe spilling of a shard
\nLike grit between teeth-on-teeth,
\nStung. Wingeing, fate-kissed.<\/p>\n
\nSpanks child to bleed potential and she grows
\nSomewhat, the rest discarded – still exists.<\/p>\n
\nSmugly brandish forefinger and thumb and one brutal palm
\nTo tear open the shell,
\nFreeing only egg-juice, all the splintered intact;
\nTheir one-handed wonder, godlike –
\nNeatly scruffy, like an omelette.<\/p>\n
\nA cup in each hand and a spillage of milky tears
\nIs a child between lives, bobbing,<\/p>\n
\nShocked in blazing waters, pop
\nWell, they had little chance.<\/p>\n
\nHard –
\nDone by, battered and peeled, cut vertical,
\nA pear-drop womb,
\nOr soft –
\nTickled, levered up at the crux,
\nLike an egghead, I once thought: unhinge me, unload me,
\nBut it’s not that simple.<\/p>\n
\nBreath through me, not mine
\nLips to my coral bones, blow
\nAnd daughter when I die make me an eggshell mosaic –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"