{"id":10642,"date":"2020-05-31T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10642"},"modified":"2020-05-31T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:22:41","slug":"the-memory-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10642","title":{"rendered":"The Memory of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"529\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/529px-Pablo_Picasso_1902-03_Femme_accroupie_Crouching_Woman_Woman_Sitting_with_Hood_oil_on_canvas_90_x_71_cm_Staatsgalerie_Stuttgart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10644\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/529px-Pablo_Picasso_1902-03_Femme_accroupie_Crouching_Woman_Woman_Sitting_with_Hood_oil_on_canvas_90_x_71_cm_Staatsgalerie_Stuttgart.jpg 529w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/529px-Pablo_Picasso_1902-03_Femme_accroupie_Crouching_Woman_Woman_Sitting_with_Hood_oil_on_canvas_90_x_71_cm_Staatsgalerie_Stuttgart-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><figcaption>Pablo Picasso, 1902-03,&nbsp;<em>Femme accroupie, Crouching Woman<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Woman Sitting, with Hood<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jennifer Crow<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><font face=\"Arial\">I still had hope, in the brief bright nights\nbefore the faery mound opened\nand spat you out. It is possible to be patient\nwith a memory, to sit quietly\nwith that empty place in the room. Alone,\nI painted your image on my days,\nuntil the damned coughed you up again,\nblinking, into the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shining eye.\nWhat can I do now, with the tattered remnants\nof you? What can I do with a love that flutters\nlike a broken-winged bird in a cage, unfit\neven for sacrifice?&nbsp;\n                                  And for all that, I find\nI cannot release your empty shell,\ncannot leave it on a beach for someone else\nto find and cherish. I cover the mirror\nand sweep the wreckage of my old life\nto the door, but the crooked shadow\nyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become stretches a little longer\nevery evening, and my own heart shrinks,\na once healthy organ collapsing\nunder the weight. If I could hold you,\nsoul and body\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif I could pull you\nfrom this living death . . . But you are no longer mine,\neven as you grind the last shreds of my hope\nbeneath your heel, unthinking, your gaze\nfixed on a distant hill.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Crow I still had hope, in the brief bright nights before the faery mound opened and spat you out. It is possible to be patient with a memory, to sit quietly with that empty place in the room. Alone, I painted your image on my days, until the damned coughed you up again, blinking, [&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-10642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642","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=10642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10650,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10642\/revisions\/10650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}