{"id":5019,"date":"2025-03-31T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josephrauch.com\/therauchreview\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:19:31","slug":"knee-scrape-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephrauch.com\/therauchreview\/poetry\/knee-scrape-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee-scrape Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1123.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Knee-scrape memories are a personality<br \/>\nof sorts, if you believe that reckless childhoods mean more or less<br \/>\nthe same as a reserved kid in teen-years age<br \/>\nwho is afraid of fish touching their calf when they stand<br \/>\nin the shallow waters of the ocean by the beach<br \/>\ntrying desperately to think of something other than being perceived.<\/p>\n<p>A child who was wounded by their lack-of-fear to die<br \/>\ngrows up wounded by their lack-of-will to live.<br \/>\nWhat made them stays in memory nothing more than the comprehension<br \/>\nof the dichotomy between knee-scrapes versus scars on wrists.<\/p>\n<p>Pray a once-upon-a-time to a tooth fairy<br \/>\nwho in a flourish of glitter and singing and lights<br \/>\nmight bring as gift an imprint<br \/>\nthat upon a close examination<br \/>\nwill reveal a cell-like ghostly-matter<br \/>\nwhich you will recognize as devoutly belonging to you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a game of riddles, then:<br \/>\nthus a hero&#8217;s journey begins.<br \/>\nFollow the breadcrumbs\u2014if you know what they look like.<br \/>\nKids always find their way home, but for you,<br \/>\nwho have grown into a conglomeration of dichotomies<br \/>\n(knee-scrapes versus scars on wrists)<br \/>\nthe hero gets nothing but lost. That is the point of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Not a journey, but a chase\u2014<br \/>\nchasing down a past to form a personality<br \/>\nof sorts. Because when they ask<br \/>\nwho you are, they don&#8217;t want to hear<br \/>\nwhat you are now, they want to hear<br \/>\nwhat you once were and how, then,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve become a person.<br \/>\nYou are dictated<br \/>\nby a conglomeration of explanations and excuses<br \/>\nthat make you or break you: one of a kind<br \/>\nor the same kind as many.<\/p>\n<p>Tell them a once-upon-a-time and they will listen<br \/>\nlike the tooth fairy<br \/>\ncoming to greet you in a conscious state of dreaming<br \/>\nabout a past that makes sense<br \/>\nbringing as gift a kid who never learned<br \/>\nto comprehend their own dichotomies.<br \/>\nLike magic, then they see<br \/>\nthe person whom you might have been<br \/>\nif fish would not have terrified you<br \/>\nbut they do, and you think, as such<br \/>\nthat there could have been a kid<br \/>\nwho got to find their breadcrumbs<br \/>\nand you see, then, that we are all<br \/>\npraying a once-upon-a-time to a tooth fairy<br \/>\nwho may, one day, instead of cell-like ghostly-matters<br \/>\nas a gift, bring us a kid<br \/>\nwho never ceased to find joy in knee-scrapes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like magic, then they see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-prose-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knee-scrape Memories - The Rauch Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read Michael Elias\u2019 poem, \u201cKnee-scrape Memories,\u201d here. 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