{"id":1451,"date":"2021-05-28T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:04:05","slug":"carbon-date-me-by-erin-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Carbon Date Me?&#8221; by Erin White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#a3a3a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Erin is a current USask health sciences student and Bachelor of Science graduate in biochemistry. Much of Erin\u2019s work examines the richness of the human experience under a lens of scientific imagery. In \u201cCarbon Date Me?\u201d Erin integrates foundational geological concepts with a contemplation of the relationship between past devotions and the present self.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Carbon Date Me?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Endearment, unweathered<br>adhere to this restless<br>earth pleasured by wiry<br>creatures rejoicing life.<br>You shall be buried by<br>more feeling \u2014 some grieving,<br>some yearning. But listen,<br>the winds of erasure<br>have not yet repressed you.<br>Future\u2019s sediment dusts<br>your body, so you shall<br>become stratum in me;<br>a streamlet of something<br>gleaming with memory \u2014<br>perhaps artifact tools<br>of lover\u2019s inventions,<br>the earliest relics.<br>Call it not entombment<br>but embrace, and I shall<br>point to you here, layered<br>around my beating core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#a3a3a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><em>This piece is part of the <\/em>in medias res<em> March 2021 \u201cLove\u201d Issue. You can read the full issue under the tag \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?tag=march-2021\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/imr\/?tag=march-2021\" target=\"_blank\">March 2021<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#a3a3a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><em>Image<\/em> by Ashlynn HIll.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cCarbon Date Me?\u201d Erin integrates foundational geological concepts with a contemplation of the relationship between past devotions and the present self. 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