{"id":1271,"date":"2016-11-14T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T19:14:48","slug":"heliotrope-by-lisa-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Heliotrope by Lisa Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heliotrope_Heliotropium_sp._entire_Wellcome_V0042744.jpg\" alt=\"V0042744 Heliotrope (Heliotropium sp.): entire Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org 1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 36.7 x 22.7 cm. Heliotrope (Heliotropium sp.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774. {Romae (Rome) : Bouchard et Gravier, 1774} 1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 36.7 x 22.7 cm. 36.9 x 22.9 cm. BOUCHARD, MAGDALENA Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heliotrope_Heliotropium_sp._entire_Wellcome_V0042744.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Heliotrope_Heliotropium_sp._entire_Wellcome_V0042744-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Better that he came to me<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;than his mother. Her soul<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;threadbared by grief<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;could not have carried the miracle.<\/p>\n<p>The girlfriends have all<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;moved away or moved on<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and that one boy (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not?<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A mouth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mouth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and he was<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>so wrong<\/em>, embouchure and enthusiasm<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;leagues beyond any bad girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s)<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a star who hates to talk<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;about his hick hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Better that he came to me<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the girl next door<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ten years younger than he<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and unburdened by memory or<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;expectation.<\/p>\n<p>I inherited this house<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;with the overgrown hedges.<\/p>\n<p>I inherited him too<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden by towering boxwood<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he sits on my back deck<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;low to the ground, legs<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;sprawled and hands spread wide<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;behind him as he absorbs<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the honeyed hours.<\/p>\n<p>And wherever he was before<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With the angels now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d my mom said<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;eyes teary at the tragedy<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and she was so wrong)<\/p>\n<p>I know it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heaven<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;not the way he lifts his face to the sun<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;not the way he hungers for the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better that he came to me &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;than his mother. Her soul &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;threadbared by grief &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;could not have carried the miracle. The girlfriends have all &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;moved away or moved on &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and that one boy (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A mouth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mouth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and he was &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;so wrong, embouchure and enthusiasm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;leagues beyond any bad girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a [&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-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}