{"id":18043,"date":"2024-11-26T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=18043"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:23:02","slug":"omelet-her-77th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/11\/26\/omelet-her-77th\/","title":{"rendered":"Omelet &amp; Her 77th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Omelet &amp; Her 77th <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" 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class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We broke eggs <br>sloppily over&nbsp;<br>a Corelle cup,<br>that little 1977<br>goblet whose greens<br>weren\u2019t leaves<br>but a census<br>of mossy splotches,&nbsp;<br>whose pattern&nbsp;<br>of small yolk-yellow&nbsp;<br>flowers was as familiar&nbsp;<br>and delicious&nbsp;<br>a memory as the zing<br>of mustard greens<br>in a grandmother\u2019s<br>sweltering kitchen\u2014<br>her love village<br>where she prayed<br>for her salvation<br>where she prayed<br>for her babies<br>where she prayed<br>for her country\u2014<br>and we sloped&nbsp;<br>the eggs, peppered<br>and seasoned together<br>into the skillet<br>so succinctly<br>you would never know<br>they were once&nbsp;<br>two wholly distinct bodies.&nbsp;<br>Together we divide&nbsp;<br>eggs onto plates&nbsp;<br>as if feeding thousands<br>with a few fish<br>and few loaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Her Seventy-Seventh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>My mother held the bathroom door for me while my husband ordered us hamburgers and Frosties. The door\u2019s mood was part disaster, less door, more unquiet housekey. She stood before it\u2014stoic bouncer\u2014yet so frail after lugging my father through his heavy death. She thought nothing of her shrinking frame, only of protecting. Later, I turned my head from her at the table, eyelashes blooming freshly wet. For years we were cannons and barricades, all grimaced syntax and gun metal gray. On her 77<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, my mother became flawless to me. Loyal. Royal. Redwood. Mountain. Bourbon on the rocks. She bosses me around (while I\u2019m performing the task already), and I no longer balk. I take selfies of the two of us, retake them when she doesn\u2019t smile. I am a shack to her fortress. I am the cloudburst to her sheets of rain. I am the flawed, melancholic heir to her throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Michelle McMillan-Holifield<\/strong> is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. She pens poetry, book reviews, fiction, and creative non-fiction.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;work has been included in or is forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Boxcar Poetry Review,&nbsp;Nelle, Sky Island Journal, Stirring, The Collagist, The Main Street Rag, Whale Road Review,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Windhover<\/em>, among others. She hopes you one day find&nbsp;her&nbsp;poetry tacked to a tree somewhere in the Alaskan Wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><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-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">\ud83e\udca0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/11\/27\/christ-lucifer-share-cacio-e-pepe-on-arthur-avenue\/\">Back<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/11\/27\/last-thanksgiving\/\">Next<\/a> \ud83e\udca1<\/p>\n\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omelet &amp; Her 77th Michelle McMillan-Holifield __________ Omelet We broke eggs sloppily over&nbsp;a Corelle cup,that little 1977goblet whose greensweren\u2019t leavesbut a censusof mossy splotches,&nbsp;whose pattern&nbsp;of small yolk-yellow&nbsp;flowers was as familiar&nbsp;and delicious&nbsp;a memory as the zingof mustard greensin a grandmother\u2019ssweltering kitchen\u2014her love villagewhere she prayedfor her salvationwhere she prayedfor her babieswhere she prayedfor her country\u2014and we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,145,18],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boudin","tag-poetry-2","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","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=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}