{"id":10651,"date":"2020-06-07T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:41:05","slug":"digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"Digging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/518px-Millet_by_Romain_Rolland_-_The_Digger.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10653\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/518px-Millet_by_Romain_Rolland_-_The_Digger.png 518w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/518px-Millet_by_Romain_Rolland_-_The_Digger-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><figcaption>The Digger by Jean-Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Millet, 1902<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robin Wyatt Dunn<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face = \"Arial\">Come with, Come with, down into Faerie,\nUnder the slip and sides of the glade;\nBe showered with gifts.\n\n\"She bled from her mouth,\" the digger said,\n\n\"and we all stopped along the ditch,\nand lay down our spades.\n\n\"Her skin was white as death,\nand we stood and followed her into the trees.\n\n\"The barks of the elms curled under the sun,\nwhose rays turned blue,\nand her teeth, into black chunks.\n\n\"Eamon said we would not return,\nBut I knew we would,\nBecause there was blood under her feet:\nShe had been weakened,\nAnd needed our help to slip back into Faerie.\n\n\"We stood under a secret eye\nand slid her limbs under the earth.\nShe shuddered like a crone\nunder her maiden sky.\n\n\"Afterwards, we could not find our spades.\nI was out of work for three weeks,\n&amp; my hands they stayed cold all Spring.\n\n\"Eamon got a look in his eye then.\nAnd I told him\n'Go South, to the sea;\ngo into it;\nand away from here.'\nShe still wanted him, you see.\n\n\"But he would not go.\nOne midnight I saw him by the well,\ncircling like a wounded crow.\nI cried out,\nBut my mouth could make no sound.\n\n\"In the morning he was dead;\ndrowned. But not in the well.\nHis lungs was full of her bright blood.\n\n\"In digging, some times we bestir the edges\nof their earths;\nAnd sometimes I have told a tale I knew not to be true,\nSo that they would not return before winter.\"<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Wyatt Dunn Come with, Come with, down into Faerie, Under the slip and sides of the glade; Be showered with gifts. &#8220;She bled from her mouth,&#8221; the digger said, &#8220;and we all stopped along the ditch, and lay down our spades. &#8220;Her skin was white as death, and we stood and followed her into [&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-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","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=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10655,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}