{"id":1039,"date":"2016-03-14T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2016-03-05T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T18:51:59","slug":"chopins-heart-by-sandi-leibowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Chopin&#8217;s Heart by Sandi Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1042\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/360px-PharLapsHeart-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"By AYArktos - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1043913\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/360px-PharLapsHeart-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/360px-PharLapsHeart.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By AYArktos &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1043913<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stolen by Nazis,<br \/>\nhidden by priests,<br \/>\nsurviving the onslaughts of war<br \/>\nas Warsaw fell around its tomb,<br \/>\nChopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart, preserved in a jar<br \/>\nof cognac like fruit in a bottle of liqueur,<br \/>\nforebore the years, the visits<br \/>\nof the faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists amass, eager<br \/>\nas crows on carrion.<br \/>\nRobed in the mysteries of formulae,<br \/>\nperfumed with formaldehyde,<br \/>\nthey descend into the crypt,<br \/>\npry open the vault<br \/>\nthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s played nothing but rests<br \/>\nthese two past centuries,<br \/>\nand assail the heart.<\/p>\n<p>A few quick cuts,<br \/>\nthe tiniest of samples,<br \/>\nand the organ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s returned<br \/>\nto its jar, the wax resealed,<br \/>\nre-entombed.<\/p>\n<p>What, they wonder,<br \/>\ndoes it have to tell them?<br \/>\nThey ask and ask<br \/>\nbut it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak.<\/p>\n<p>Chopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart knows but<br \/>\na single language,<br \/>\nnot the one they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening for.<\/p>\n<p>It pronounces tender nocturnes<br \/>\nin the glare of the noontime lab,<br \/>\nsinging of moonlit emeralds glinting<br \/>\non Aurore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unclothed breasts.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists continue probing,<br \/>\nattuned to their test-tubes,<br \/>\nto the samples simmering in chemical soups,<br \/>\nto the percussion of the computer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beeps.<\/p>\n<p>The heart despairs,<br \/>\nwanders through minor-key impromptus,<br \/>\na blizzard of sharps,<br \/>\nthunders in angry polonaises<br \/>\nthat promise tigers rioting in Montmartre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen by Nazis, hidden by priests, surviving the onslaughts of war as Warsaw fell around its tomb, Chopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart, preserved in a jar of cognac like fruit in a bottle of liqueur, forebore the years, the visits of the faithful. Now scientists amass, eager as crows on carrion. Robed in the mysteries of formulae, perfumed [&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-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","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=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}