{"id":58165,"date":"2026-01-19T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/?p=58165"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:44:18","slug":"change-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/poetry\/change-in-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang\u2019e in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\nfunction showWarning_enUS() {\n    var content_warning_list = document.getElementById(\"content-warning-enUS\");\n\n    if (content_warning_list.style.display === \"none\") {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"block\";\n    } else {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"none\";\n    }\n}\n<\/script><div lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"content-warning-container-ltr\"><p><strong class=\"content-warning-title\">Content warning:<\/strong><br\/><button onclick=\"showWarning_enUS()\">Show warnings<\/button><\/p><div class=\"content-warning\" id=\"content-warning-enUS\" style=\"display: none;\" ><p>This page contains: <\/p><ul><li>Disregard for personal autonomy<\/li><\/ul><\/div><br\/><\/div>\n<p>They say she flew.<br \/>\nI say she was flung.<\/p>\n<p>A woman drinks what was never hers.<br \/>\nThe sky remembers theft like scripture.<\/p>\n<p>The moon was not her destination.<br \/>\nIt was a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>She landed with her hair aflame, mouth full of names<br \/>\nno one asked her to keep.<\/p>\n<p>No one tells you the elixir tastes like metal,<br \/>\nor that godhood burns going down.<\/p>\n<p>She does not miss the archer.<br \/>\nShe misses hunger, noise, the heat of being wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Up here, everything glows\u2014sterile.<br \/>\nEven silence grows a spine.<\/p>\n<p>When she walks, the dust remembers.<br \/>\nWhen she speaks, the craters shudder.<\/p>\n<p>Some nights, she carves her name into the dust<br \/>\njust to watch it vanish again.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the children: she is lonely.<br \/>\nTell them: she would do it again.<\/p>\n<br class=\"clear_both\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon was not her destination. It was a sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-58165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-no-content-warning"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82q22-f89","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58383,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58165\/revisions\/58383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}