{"id":10700,"date":"2020-08-17T07:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:27:12","slug":"a-spiders-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"A Spider&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/635px-Estella_Canziani_Bookplate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10701\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/635px-Estella_Canziani_Bookplate.jpg 635w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/635px-Estella_Canziani_Bookplate-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><figcaption>Bookplate of Estella Canziani, Published by A Fowler, Kansas City, MO\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0The Bookplate Annual for 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beth Cato<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">Rapunzel, Rapunzel\nlet down your coarse hair\nthat my friend spiders\nmay tickle up its length\n\nthink of me as they spin\nsilk to swaddle your form\nremember those days long past\nwhen I, newly cursed,\u00c2\u00a0\nfled the dark forest and found\u00c2\u00a0\nyour spindly tower\n\nfound you\n\nyou granted me the warmth\nof your pillow, your expression\nof puzzlement as I wove words\ninto webs and tried in vain\nto teach you to read\n\nbut you, in your tower\nhad never known words, or books\nnever known human touch beyond\nthe age of seven\u00c2\u00a0\nwhen she locked you here\n\nI think that made me hate the witch\nmost of all--\nthat she bound you on high\nignorant of a full world\nand a myriad more\n\nI wish I could be up there now to tell you\nyou needn't contain your scream or terror\nas my spiders lower you to earth\nthat the witch will not hear\n\nshe will hear nothing ever again\n\nI never knew peace as with you\nyour constant rhymes\nthe joy you took in sharing your\npersonal collection of constellations\n\nI would have repulsed myself\nhad I seen my spider body\nbut you carried me on a forearm\nmy broad black legs sprawled on ebony skin\nyou loved me\n\ncan you love me still\nwhen my small fingers clutch your arm?\n\nall delights of the world can be yours\nand yet--\ndeep down I fear that\nyou will never tolerate cities or noise\nthat the greatest comfort will come\nin a circular space of thirty feet\nthat clothes will drive you mad\nspoons, forks, pencils useless\nin your fingertips\n\neven so, I pray\n\nyou will still enjoy my company\neven if I never again share your pillow\nthat you'll know the gratitude\nthe love\nof one who was once a spider\u00c2\u00a0\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Cato Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your coarse hair that my friend spiders may tickle up its length think of me as they spin silk to swaddle your form remember those days long past when I, newly cursed,\u00c2\u00a0 fled the dark forest and found\u00c2\u00a0 your spindly tower found you you granted me the warmth of [&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-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","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=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}