{"id":10773,"date":"2021-03-22T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2021-04-04T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T23:56:03","slug":"white-as-sorrow-black-as-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10773","title":{"rendered":"White as Sorrow, Black as Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bear_fairytale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bear_fairytale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bear_fairytale.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/bear_fairytale-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sandi Leibowitz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&lt;<font face=\"Arial\">\n<em>Night and the forest has come into the kitchen with darkness tangled in its hair.<\/em>\n<em>Angela Carter<\/em>\n\nEven his eyes have been eaten.\nI remember him the way he used to be,\nforeign presence entering our cottage\nchanging everything,\nthe Bear since swallowed by the prince.\n&nbsp;\nI didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want his brother,\nna\u00c3\u00afve duke in silver hose\nand adequate broad shoulders.\n<em>Be happy<\/em>, Rose said, beaming,\nher wish also command;\n<em>we can stay together forever<\/em>\n<em>just as Mama said<\/em>.\n&nbsp;\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I covet my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s husband,\nthe prince with his amiable grin\nfull of blunt white teeth.\nBut Bear, oh Bear, what I would give\nto feel those ivory fangs\nslide slick against my shoulders.\n&nbsp;\nRose says his fur was brown\nbut it was the black of loam\nto which arboreal dynasties deeded\ntheir thousands of leaves,\nblack as the night that waited\nbeyond our fire-lit hearth,\nbreathing just outside the cottage door.\nHe wore the secret scent of the woods,\nwhiff of danger and decay,\nsavagery of owl,\nsacrifice of dove.\n&nbsp;\nBear\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes gleamed more gold\nthan flame\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play on brass kettle\nor bee darting through the dark paths of the hive,\nthe subtle soul alive.\nHow could I guess it was not\nimprisoned prince\nbut Bear himself I glimpsed there?\n&nbsp;\nOh Bear, you have purged the wild within you,\nthe greenwood gone as if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d torched the brush.\n&nbsp;\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even a ghost of you,\nthe man cloaked in ermine pelt\nwho rules these marble halls\nbeside Red Rose, his placid queen.\n&nbsp;\nCultivated gardens surround us,\nand fields tended by peasants\nwho scrape and smile when we ride through,\nbarricaded within our tidy carriage.\nThe woods are miles away.\n&nbsp;\nNow if I would taste the night,\nI have only my own heart to visit.\n\n\n\n\n<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandi Leibowitz &lt; Night and the forest has come into the kitchen with darkness tangled in its hair. Angela Carter Even his eyes have been eaten. I remember him the way he used to be, foreign presence entering our cottage changing everything, the Bear since swallowed by the prince. &nbsp; I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want his brother, [&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-10773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773","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=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10778,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions\/10778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}