{"id":1000,"date":"2016-02-15T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2016-02-22T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:20:53","slug":"beatriz-and-ferdinand-by-mary-alexander-agner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Beatriz to Ferdinand by Mary Alexandra Agner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/635px-Ajaccio_Paolini_Femme_petite_fille-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"635px-Ajaccio_Paolini_Femme_petite_fille\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/635px-Ajaccio_Paolini_Femme_petite_fille-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/635px-Ajaccio_Paolini_Femme_petite_fille.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These letters wait for your return.<br \/>\nI write them when I should be sleeping.<br \/>\nThe babies wait for your return.<br \/>\nThese letters wait their chance to burn.<br \/>\nThe days are full of burping, feeding.<br \/>\nI still have energy to yearn.<br \/>\nThese letters wait for your return.<br \/>\nI write them when I should be sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>Sevilla&#8217;s eyes all watch the wharves.<br \/>\nYour voyage is this eight-days&#8217; wonder.<br \/>\nUnless it&#8217;s New World, it&#8217;s ignored.<br \/>\nSevilla&#8217;s gossip floods the wharves:<br \/>\nyour name, the risk, what you might plunder.<br \/>\nI hold my breath; you&#8217;re sailing foreign shores.<br \/>\nSevilla&#8217;s eyes all watch the wharves.<br \/>\nEight days.\u00c2\u00a0 Eighty.\u00c2\u00a0 Now just I wonder.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not the only one with dreams.<br \/>\nWealth, yes, but most:\u00c2\u00a0 stability<br \/>\nand nights of drip-less, arid dreams.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not the only one who dreams:<br \/>\nI want a husband <em>and<\/em> a family,<br \/>\na home in Portugal with no view of the sea.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not the only one with dreams<br \/>\nbut mine lack waves, crave rock stability.<\/p>\n<p>The streets are flush with orange scent,<br \/>\nevening guitars, lovers out walking.<br \/>\nA young don holds his elbow bent.<br \/>\nThe streets are flush with orange scent,<br \/>\nmy heart beats faster just from walking.<br \/>\nHe talks of gold, and you, and I stop, gawking.<br \/>\nThe streets are flush with orange scent,<br \/>\nevening guitars, his footsteps walking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll find you in the underworld.<br \/>\nI predecease you&#8212;and you don&#8217;t return.<br \/>\nYou nearly circumnavigate the world<br \/>\nbut all the roads in hell are curved.<br \/>\nThese letters wait for your return.<br \/>\nWas it new?\u00c2\u00a0 Or just more same-old world?<br \/>\nBetter than my body&#8217;s world?<br \/>\nThe babies wait for your return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These letters wait for your return. I write them when I should be sleeping. The babies wait for your return. These letters wait their chance to burn. The days are full of burping, feeding. I still have energy to yearn. These letters wait for your return. I write them when I should be sleeping. Sevilla&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}