{"id":10837,"date":"2022-01-09T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:12:53","slug":"moonburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10837","title":{"rendered":"Moonburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/512px-Edvard_Munch_-_Summer_night_by_the_beach_1902-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/512px-Edvard_Munch_-_Summer_night_by_the_beach_1902-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10838\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/512px-Edvard_Munch_-_Summer_night_by_the_beach_1902-03.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/512px-Edvard_Munch_-_Summer_night_by_the_beach_1902-03-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Summer Night by the Beach by Edvard Munch, 1903<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sarah Shirley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Moonburn happens on very clear nights\nto the pale swimmers venturing out, their\nskin bare to the air and the water. \n\nThey call to each other in trills and gargling\nfluting sounds as they crawl over \nthe rubble that is left when cities fall.\n\nTheir milky skin sings at the touch of\nreflected radiance, tapping into an ancestral \nmemory of a time when we strode out\n\ninto the brightest days, when we stood beneath\nthe orange sun and bathed in heat and light.\nLong ago there was a sandy beach here,\n\nbut now our children, skin bleached\nby the years spent trembling in the \nshadows of the fallout shelters, creep out\n\ninto the moonlight-silvered city, and lay\ntheir pale bodies down to rest in the dark\nat the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lapping edge.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Shirley Moonburn happens on very clear nights to the pale swimmers venturing out, their skin bare to the air and the water. They call to each other in trills and gargling fluting sounds as they crawl over the rubble that is left when cities fall. Their milky skin sings at the touch of reflected [&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-10837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","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=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}