{"id":1340,"date":"2017-02-27T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:15:13","slug":"a-final-visitation-to-our-monumental-glass-desert-by-wesley-d-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"A Final Visitation to Our Monumental Glass Desert by Wesley D. Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487863951318_70208\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/579px-August_Macke_009-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"579px-August_Macke_009\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/579px-August_Macke_009-300x249.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/579px-August_Macke_009.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487863951318_70225\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let us see it once more<br \/>\nbefore the Grand Finale<br \/>\nlike a striated shrine,<br \/>\na coruscated monument,<br \/>\nthe last Great Wonder<br \/>\nof our shattered world.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nStep up to its S-curve borders<br \/>\nto stare into the glassy dunes<br \/>\nwhere amber ghosts swim<br \/>\nbeyond its wavy surface,<br \/>\nlike jellyfish fossils<br \/>\ntrapped beneath its stoic facade.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nCome and see the twisted relics<br \/>\nof crystallized faces,<br \/>\nwide-eyed with their reflections<br \/>\nsitting in parlors of haunted endings,<br \/>\nbone canyons with web-nested eyes<br \/>\nspilling regret from cavernous sockets.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nEndure the weight of chains<br \/>\nshackled to their necks<br \/>\nlike skeletal colossus snakes<br \/>\nwoven of a doomed reformation,<br \/>\nspun from the spinnerets<br \/>\nof silkworm epidemics.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nTouch the lustrous body,<br \/>\nso bitter now, and cold,<br \/>\nthe heat of the magma<br \/>\nlong ago faded<br \/>\nlike the glossy echoes<br \/>\nof our children&#8217;s soft whispers.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nBlood and tears<br \/>\nare encased within,<br \/>\nlike swirls inside a marble,<br \/>\nmixed with all that liquid skin,<br \/>\nnow once again solidified,<br \/>\nlike the curls of resin-coated tongues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us see it once more before the Grand Finale like a striated shrine, a coruscated monument, the last Great Wonder of our shattered world. \u00c2\u00a0 Step up to its S-curve borders to stare into the glassy dunes where amber ghosts swim beyond its wavy surface, like jellyfish fossils trapped beneath its stoic facade. \u00c2\u00a0 [&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-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}