{"id":9179,"date":"2014-10-23T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:43:38","slug":"coffee-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=9179","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9180\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/CoffeecupWikimediaCommonsbyJohnSullivan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9180\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/CoffeecupWikimediaCommonsbyJohnSullivan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(photo courtesy of John Sullivan, Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo courtesy of John Sullivan, Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consider the cup of coffee, black as night,<br \/>\nAt night, all night, beside her on the table,<br \/>\nUnder the kitchen light where she would sit<\/p>\n<p>Staring at nothing, still as a photograph.<br \/>\nConsider the way at first the steam would rise,<br \/>\nLike phantoms twisting up against each other<\/p>\n<p>Struggling to pull away from the black lake<br \/>\nThat burned them every which way into nothing.<br \/>\nConsider the cup of coffee as it cooled,<\/p>\n<p>The glassy black of it on which the light<br \/>\nAbove floated a tiny version of itself.<br \/>\nHow like an eye it might have looked to her,<\/p>\n<p>The bright pupil there, the negative of hers,<br \/>\nIf she had seen it, although she never did,<br \/>\nNever so much as lifted up the cup,<\/p>\n<p>Never so much as touched it, staring off<br \/>\nAt nothing as it went from hot to cold,<br \/>\nTo colder while you watched her from the hallway,<\/p>\n<p>Back in the dark beyond the doorway\u2019s frame,<br \/>\nUnseen, unseeable, and completely safe<br \/>\nAs the cold eye in the mirror of the cup.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Alan Shapiro, from <\/em>Night of the Republic<em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/2014\/10\/23\/shapironcaward\/\">Read a Q&amp;A interview<\/a> with Shapiro about winning a 2014 North Carolina Award for Literature.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Consider the cup of coffee, black as night, At night, all night, beside her on the table, Under the kitchen light where she would sit Staring at nothing, still as a photograph. Consider the way at first the steam would rise, Like phantoms twisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[1955,24,2461,2462,36,37,38,39,40],"class_list":["post-9179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-humanities","category-undergraduate-education","tag-alan-shapiro","tag-carolina","tag-coffee-cup","tag-night-of-the-republic","tag-unc","tag-unc-arts-and-sciences","tag-unc-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-unc-chapel-hill","tag-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46980,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions\/46980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}