{"id":10709,"date":"2020-09-07T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10709"},"modified":"2020-09-07T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:31:08","slug":"wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10709","title":{"rendered":"Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hawthorne_Tree_6937831242.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10710\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hawthorne_Tree_6937831242.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hawthorne_Tree_6937831242-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Hawthorne Tree, by Virginia State Parks staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jennifer Bushroe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nEveryone knows\nyou only get three wishes\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the rule\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\nso you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve parceled them out:\nthe fairies at the hawthorn tree\nthe witch at the wishing steps\nthe triple-goddess at the holy well.\n&nbsp;\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve studied the stories\nyou know to be specific\nwhen making a wish\nlest the lens of interpretation\nskew your intention and leave\nyou worse off than you started.\n&nbsp;\nSo on the third day of your trip\nyou tie your ribbon\nto the hawthorn and heart-speak\na long string of clauses\nand parentheticals knotted\nwith dashes and semicolons\nto cinch tight every loophole.\n&nbsp;\nThe long string winds into a wish-skein\nfor True Love\u00e2\u20ac\u201dromance\nthe one area of your life\nthat is as vacant as the missing\nstone in the megalithic circle\nin which the hawthorn stands.\n&nbsp;\nSatisfied, you leave the hill\nwith your brother, imagining\nthe Irish fairies already hurrying\nto bring your wish to life\nbecause it is sacred May\nbecause you showed respect\nbecause you hope-believe.\n&nbsp;\nAnd then\neighteen days later\n(three plus three plus three plus\nthree plus three plus three)\nyour mother tells you:\nyour brother is dead.\n&nbsp;\nBy your reckoning\nthe fairies could\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve protected him\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dman of twenty-seven\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\n(three times three times three)\nthe wish made with a three-inch ribbon\nthe sacred number everywhere\nand meaningful in your grief-logic.\n&nbsp;\nBut it never occurred to you\nto wish for him\nto wish for just\n<em>life&nbsp;<\/em>- a long life an ongoing life an earthly life\nand now you wish\nyou had.\n\n\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Bushroe Everyone knows you only get three wishes \u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the rule\u00e2\u20ac\u201d so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve parceled them out: the fairies at the hawthorn tree the witch at the wishing steps the triple-goddess at the holy well. &nbsp; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve studied the stories you know to be specific when making a wish lest the lens of interpretation skew [&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-10709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709","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=10709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10714,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10709\/revisions\/10714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}