{"id":433,"date":"2023-08-24T13:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/?p=433"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:12:54","slug":"denise-frohman-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/archives\/433","title":{"rendered":"Denice Frohman &#8211; &#8220;Accents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Denice Frohman - Accents\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtOXiNx4jgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Denice Frohman<\/p>\n<p>my mom holds her accent like a shotgun<br \/>\nwith two good hands<\/p>\n<p>her tongue<br \/>\nall brass knuckle<br \/>\nher hips, are all laughter and wind clap<\/p>\n<p>she speaks a sanchocho of spanish and english,<br \/>\npushing up and against one another in rapid fire<\/p>\n<p>there is no tellin\u2019 my mama to be \u201cquiet,\u201d<br \/>\nmy mama don\u2019t know \u201cquiet\u201d<\/p>\n<p>her voice is one size<br \/>\nbetter fit all and you best not<br \/>\ntell her to hush, she waited<br \/>\ntoo many years for her voice to arrive<br \/>\nto be told it needed house-keeping.<\/p>\n<p>english sits in her mouth remixed<br \/>\nso \u201cstrawberry\u201d becomes \u201ceh-strawbeddy\u201d<br \/>\nand \u201ccookie\u201d becomes \u201ceh-cookie\u201d<br \/>\nand kitchen, key chain, and chicken<br \/>\nall sound the same.<\/p>\n<p>my mama doesn\u2019t say \u201cyes\u201d<br \/>\nshe says, \u201cah ha\u201d<br \/>\nand suddenly<br \/>\nthe sky in her mouth<br \/>\nbecomes Hector Lavoe song.<\/p>\n<p>her tongue<br \/>\ncan\u2019t lay itself down<br \/>\nflat enough<br \/>\nfor the english language.<\/p>\n<p>it got too much hip,<br \/>\ntoo much bone,<br \/>\ntoo much conga,<br \/>\ntoo much cuatro<br \/>\nto two step,<br \/>\ngot too many piano keys<br \/>\nin between her teeth<br \/>\nit got too much clave<br \/>\ntoo much hand clap,<br \/>\ngot too much salsa to sit still<\/p>\n<p>it be an anxious child wanting<br \/>\nto make Play-Doh<br \/>\nout of concrete, english<br \/>\nbe too neat for<br \/>\nher kind of wonderful<\/p>\n<p>her words spill in conversation<br \/>\nbetween women whose hands are all they got<br \/>\nsometimes our hands are all we got,<br \/>\nand accents that remind us<br \/>\nthat we are still bomba, still plena<\/p>\n<p>say, \u201cwepa!\u201d<br \/>\nand a stranger becomes your hermano,<br \/>\nsay, \u201cdale!\u201d<br \/>\nand a crowd becomes a family reunion.<\/p>\n<p>my mama\u2019s tongue is a telegram from her mother<br \/>\ndecorated with the coqui\u2019s of el campo,<\/p>\n<p>so even when her lips can barely<br \/>\nstretch themselves around english,<br \/>\nher accent<br \/>\nis a stubborn compass<br \/>\nalways pointing her<br \/>\ntowards home\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accents by Denice Frohman my mom holds her accent like a shotgun with two good hands her tongue all brass knuckle her hips, are all laughter and wind clap she speaks a sanchocho of spanish and english, pushing up and against one another in rapid fire there is no tellin\u2019 my mama to be \u201cquiet,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottbevill.net\/HVA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}