{"id":15724,"date":"2024-02-03T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2024-02-07T03:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:14:36","slug":"cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/02\/03\/cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Cycle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Susan Tepper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Meditations on dear Petrov<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Set in 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century Russia during a time of war<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There is no beginning or end. &nbsp; Springtime grasses brown quickly only to be buried under snow.&nbsp; An avalanche.&nbsp; This cycle, dear Petrov.&nbsp; Having no one.&nbsp; How I do dread.&nbsp; Wishing to sleep and never to reappear.&nbsp; A wish without self-pity.&nbsp; Over time the body grows bewildered.&nbsp; Circles itself then re-circles in a mad frenzy.&nbsp; Waiting to be sliced apart.&nbsp; Food for another hungry animal.&nbsp; When the snow melts I will go to market. &nbsp; Mud roads cannot deter me.&nbsp; The rubles you left hardly fill my string cachet.&nbsp; I\u2019m not complaining.&nbsp; But seeking God in some order.&nbsp; Stranger things are recorded, dear Petrov.&nbsp; I might receive a word along the road.&nbsp; A blurred vision.&nbsp; It will not fill my larder.&nbsp; But if it props me up.&nbsp; I\u2019ll crack the whip gently on my horse.&nbsp; Clucking.&nbsp; So he will know to trot faster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susantepper.com\">Susan Isla Tepper<\/a> is a twenty-year writer. Eleven of her books are published, as well as a multitude of stories, poems, interviews, essays and opinion columns worldwide. Tepper has also written four stage plays. A new novel titled <em>Hair of a Fallen Angel<\/em> will be out in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Follow us<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/boudin_mcneese\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/02\/03\/machine-gun-secrets\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycle Susan Tepper __________ Meditations on dear Petrov Set in 19th Century Russia during a time of war There is no beginning or end. &nbsp; Springtime grasses brown quickly only to be buried under snow.&nbsp; An avalanche.&nbsp; This cycle, dear Petrov.&nbsp; Having no one.&nbsp; How I do dread.&nbsp; Wishing to sleep and never to reappear.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[75,100,101,42],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-hybrid-this-is-it","tag-boudin","tag-flashfiction","tag-microfiction","tag-hybrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}