{"id":2025,"date":"2022-09-25T18:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T22:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=2025"},"modified":"2022-09-25T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T22:41:32","slug":"lauren-wilensky-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/?page_id=2025","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Michelle Wilensky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-normal-font-size\">I want our geometry to come easy\n\nto be larger than life\nto take in the possibilities\nhow your perfect hand\nholds your chin up\namid our wrong answers\nand hard shapes \nto measure\nour love like an icosahedron\nwith too many faces to quantify\nan equation I cannot answer\nacute measurements\nrequire calculating tongue \n\nand sharp-edged embrace\nwe survived too much\nscratch paper\neraser marks\nsmudged red ink\nour faces blend\n\nimperfect symmetry\nwith beautiful inaccuracy\nI want our love to come easy\nshape our bodies into right angles\nsteer clear of long division\nand show our work for a while.\n \n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%;\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lauren-wilensky.jpg?w=240\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2026\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Lauren Michelle Wilensky<\/strong> (she\/her) is a poet and educator from Los Angeles but calls San Diego home. She earned a B.A. in English, Creative Writing strand from S.D.S.U. and M.A. in Curriculum Design from U.C.S.D.. Her work has been published in <em>Magee Park Poets<\/em>, <em>San Diego Poetry Annual <\/em>and <em>A Year in Ink<\/em>. She teaches high school English working alongside marginalized youth, as well as teaches teachers at the University of San Diego. She lives with her son, spouse, two dogs and a ball python.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want our geometry to come easy to be larger than life to take in the possibilities how your perfect hand holds your chin up amid our wrong answers and hard shapes to measure our love like an icosahedron with too many faces to quantify an equation I cannot answer acute measurements require calculating tongue and sharp-edged embrace we survived too much scratch paper eraser marks smudged red ink our faces blend imperfect symmetry with beautiful inaccuracy I want our love to come easy shape our bodies into right angles steer clear of long division and show our work for a while. Lauren Michelle Wilensky (she\/her) is a poet and educator from Los Angeles but calls San Diego home. She earned a B.A. in English, Creative Writing strand from S.D.S.U. and M.A. in Curriculum Design from U.C.S.D.. Her work has been published in Magee Park Poets, San Diego Poetry Annual and A Year in Ink. She teaches high school English working alongside marginalized youth, as well as teaches teachers at the University of San Diego. She lives with her son, spouse, two dogs and a ball python.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2025","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepetigrureview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}