{"id":1291,"date":"2016-12-19T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2016-12-17T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T21:12:14","slug":"1291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"We Denizens of Honeycomb Hills by Wesley D. Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/512px-27-alimenti_miele_Taccuino_Sanitatis_Casanatense_4182..jpg\" alt=\"512px-27-alimenti_miele_taccuino_sanitatis_casanatense_4182\" width=\"512\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/512px-27-alimenti_miele_Taccuino_Sanitatis_Casanatense_4182..jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/512px-27-alimenti_miele_Taccuino_Sanitatis_Casanatense_4182.-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were a colony of the broken,<br \/>\na colony of famished sorrow,<br \/>\nour eyes branded with the searing tongues<\/p>\n<p>that licked away the life we knew,<br \/>\ntongues that lapped our loved ones<br \/>\ninto a throat that swallowed<\/p>\n<p>with the immensity of an endless shadow,<br \/>\nand the hunger of our huntress whale<br \/>\nstalking her krill throughout this flaming sea.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever we looked,<br \/>\nit was all the same:<br \/>\nwe tried to blink away<\/p>\n<p>the horrors in hopeless flutters,<br \/>\nbut the smoke of writhing bodies<br \/>\nwill never leave our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>So we march<br \/>\ninto the dreaded hills<br \/>\nlike a line of melted ants<\/p>\n<p>detached from the hive mind,<br \/>\nbrains disoriented<br \/>\nlike a jumble of squirming worms.<\/p>\n<p>We build our huts in latticework,<br \/>\nunconventional honeycombs<br \/>\nas if to build away our old way of life,<\/p>\n<p>but now we are just the parasites<br \/>\nlost in a world no longer ours.<br \/>\nAnd so here we huddle,<\/p>\n<p>here we nest,<br \/>\nthe oscillations of our cries<br \/>\nphasing into broadcasts<\/p>\n<p>at long-range frequency,<br \/>\nthe vibrations of our shared lament<br \/>\nhumming static throughout the night.<\/p>\n<h6>illustration By unknown master (book scan) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were a colony of the broken, a colony of famished sorrow, our eyes branded with the searing tongues that licked away the life we knew, tongues that lapped our loved ones into a throat that swallowed with the immensity of an endless shadow, and the hunger of our huntress whale stalking her krill throughout [&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-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","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=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}