{"id":1440,"date":"2017-07-03T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2017-07-02T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T23:32:19","slug":"1440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Euryale at the Shore by Mari Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-Antefissa_semiellittica_con_gorgone_510-500_ac._ca_da_taranto_MAN_taranto-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-Antefissa_semiellittica_con_gorgone_510-500_ac._ca_da_taranto_MAN_taranto-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-Antefissa_semiellittica_con_gorgone_510-500_ac._ca_da_taranto_MAN_taranto-768x560.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-Antefissa_semiellittica_con_gorgone_510-500_ac._ca_da_taranto_MAN_taranto-1024x747.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200px-Antefissa_semiellittica_con_gorgone_510-500_ac._ca_da_taranto_MAN_taranto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The years<br \/>\npass and pass, and still she feeds<br \/>\nthe snakes in her hair<br \/>\none by one, wary of bites.<br \/>\nShe has forgotten the names<br \/>\nshe first gave them, forgotten<br \/>\njust how many bites,<br \/>\nbut not her scars,<br \/>\nhard as bronze,<br \/>\nrough as sand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The days<br \/>\npass and pass, and still she can&#8217;t<br \/>\nstop studying the wind-churned foam.<br \/>\nShe dons sandals,<br \/>\nsunglasses, a large grey hat<br \/>\nsteps quietly into the sun,<br \/>\nsteps quietly in to the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So hard<br \/>\nto see the monsters here.<br \/>\nShe sips a coke, nibbles pizza,<br \/>\nmourns that fruit doesn&#8217;t taste as sweet<br \/>\nwhen not stolen from the gods.<br \/>\nChildren shriek against the waves.<br \/>\nThe snakes hiss in her ear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She lifts<br \/>\nher hand to the hat.<br \/>\nLater she will find some living food.<br \/>\nLater she will sing to them.<br \/>\nFor now she watches the shifting sea,<br \/>\nlets the salt fall on her lips.<br \/>\nShe is only skin and stone.<\/p>\n<h6>Monsters Exhibition (Palazzo Massimo, Rome, 2014)\u00e2\u20ac\u017d, photo by Sailko<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The years pass and pass, and still she feeds the snakes in her hair one by one, wary of bites. She has forgotten the names she first gave them, forgotten just how many bites, but not her scars, hard as bronze, rough as sand. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The days pass and pass, and still she can&#8217;t stop studying [&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-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}