{"id":10897,"date":"2022-11-13T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2024-09-08T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T23:45:00","slug":"milk-and-black-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10897","title":{"rendered":"Milk and Black Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#a3a3a3\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-10902\" alt=\"generated pen and ink of spiders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-13-16.18.05-making-a-magic-spell-out-of-black-spiders-and-milk-with-grandma-spider-watching-ink-drawing-by-aubrey-beardsley-1.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-13-16.18.05-making-a-magic-spell-out-of-black-spiders-and-milk-with-grandma-spider-watching-ink-drawing-by-aubrey-beardsley-1.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-13-16.18.05-making-a-magic-spell-out-of-black-spiders-and-milk-with-grandma-spider-watching-ink-drawing-by-aubrey-beardsley-1-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-13-16.18.05-making-a-magic-spell-out-of-black-spiders-and-milk-with-grandma-spider-watching-ink-drawing-by-aubrey-beardsley-1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-13-16.18.05-making-a-magic-spell-out-of-black-spiders-and-milk-with-grandma-spider-watching-ink-drawing-by-aubrey-beardsley-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Avra Margariti<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nCauldron alchemy of sizzling wormwood\nheart-sparks glowing like sixth magnitude stars\nwhich is to say not bright at all\nsalt sulfur mercury\nthe yin yang and beyond\nblood drawn from meaty bottom lip\nthe missing ingredient\n \nGrandma Spider instructs\nI fill a bowl with boiled goat milk and\ndrop three of her raisin-black grandchildren\ninto the viscous liquid.\nThe spiders gurgle as Grandma watches\nfrom her webbed throne.\nNow, she says. With scalded fingertips I fish them out.\nThey walk across my workbench, arachnid-bent legs\nweeping white across the swirling woodgrain\nspinnerets spitting brittle silk soaked in milk.\nThe spiders crumble and die and I cry, I cry\nbut Grandma Spider shouts, The spell, girl. Focus on the spell.\nSoon enough, the drenched threads weave\na shape on the table, the lost\nlast ingredient. Grandma Spider nods, perched high\nin all her ancient glory.\nI gather the gossamer flower embroidery onto my palm\nswallowing it down whole.<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avra Margariti Cauldron alchemy of sizzling wormwood heart-sparks glowing like sixth magnitude stars which is to say not bright at all salt sulfur mercury the yin yang and beyond blood drawn from meaty bottom lip the missing ingredient Grandma Spider instructs I fill a bowl with boiled goat milk and drop three of her raisin-black [&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-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","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=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10903,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions\/10903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}