{"id":4184,"date":"2015-05-02T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T21:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2015-05-02T21:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T21:41:20","slug":"jus-primae-noctis-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/jus-primae-noctis-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJus primae noctis\u201d A Poem by Christine Stoddard"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nYou call this bed your splendor; I call it my cemetery.
\nThis pillow is my tombstone. This sheet, death’s veil.
\n 
\nYour prick has made a ghost of me, yet glaistig I am not.
\nIf I could sing, I might lure you and drink your blood
\nbut voice have I none. No, Monseigneur, none.
\n 
\nAs soon as my husband slipped the ring on my finger,
\nyou whisked me away to your dark, mossy castle.
\nThe fog filled my lungs and I fainted on your steed.
\n 
\nOpen any book and you’ll know how the story goes,
\n‘The funeral follows the wedding.’
\n 
\nWhen the servant slumbering in the trundle bed
\nbolts up at your bellowing, we shall have a witness
\nto the death of my honor.
\n 
\nI had hoped the priest would deflower me instead.
\nHe is soft and white like a maggot, hardly fearful.
\nBut you are big, as big as a hairy highland coo,
\nso fearful and yet still so soft, still so white.
\n 
\nI had hoped you would’ve been wearing chainmail–
\nperhaps my silence would seem less pitiful.
\nPerhaps my husband could forgive me then.
\n 
\nDo not call me ‘bonny’ as I writhe beneath you.
\nBone the sorrowful lass and be done, bassa.
\nBe done, be done, be done, be done, be done.
\n 
\n <\/strong>
\n \"Christine<\/a>
\n 
\n 
\nChristine Stoddard is a wordsmith and visual storyteller originally from Virginia. While an undergrad at VCUarts, she founded Quail Bell Magazine <\/a>, which has been featured in Time Out New York, Volume 1 Brooklyn<\/em>, and Washington Post Express<\/em>. Her words and images have appeared in The New York Transit Museum, The Feminist Wire,<\/em> Thought Catalog, The Poe Museum, The Brooklyn Quarterly<\/em>, Bustle, Figment D.C., the Annapolis Fringe Festival, and elsewhere. Check out more of Christine’s work at
\nWordsmithChristine.com and WorldOfChristineStoddard.com.<\/strong>
\n  
\n 
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  You call this bed your splendor; I call it my cemetery. This pillow is my tombstone. This sheet, death’s veil.   Your prick has made a ghost of me, yet glaistig I am not. If I could sing, I might lure you and drink your blood but voice have I none. No, Monseigneur, none. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[619,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}