{"id":1487,"date":"2017-08-21T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2017-08-20T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:47:42","slug":"the-children-in-the-trees-by-rebecca-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"the children in the trees by Rebecca Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1174px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mann_und_Frau_in_Betrachtung_des_Mondes_-_Alte_Nationalgalerie_Berlin-1024x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1174px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mann_und_Frau_in_Betrachtung_des_Mondes_-_Alte_Nationalgalerie_Berlin-1024x785.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1174px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mann_und_Frau_in_Betrachtung_des_Mondes_-_Alte_Nationalgalerie_Berlin-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1174px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mann_und_Frau_in_Betrachtung_des_Mondes_-_Alte_Nationalgalerie_Berlin-768x589.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1174px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mann_und_Frau_in_Betrachtung_des_Mondes_-_Alte_Nationalgalerie_Berlin.jpg 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this world is not of our choosing<br \/>\nno<br \/>\nwe did not choose this world<br \/>\nof dense black forests<br \/>\nand thick yellow fog<br \/>\nand stinging rain<\/p>\n<p>woken<br \/>\ntoo soon<br \/>\nfrom our centuries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sleep<br \/>\nstranded<br \/>\nbeneath strange stars<\/p>\n<p>and our children died<br \/>\nand our children died<br \/>\nand our children died<\/p>\n<p>the trees shivered with our grief<br \/>\nand drank our tears<br \/>\nand their trunks split wide<br \/>\npink wood<br \/>\nand wet<\/p>\n<p>and we tucked our children inside<br \/>\nthose who could not breathe<br \/>\nwhose eyes burned and bled<br \/>\nwhose skin blistered and broke<\/p>\n<p>dense black bark knit and grew<br \/>\nsealing our children<br \/>\nwithin their warm wet trunks<\/p>\n<p>and the stinging rain fell<br \/>\nand the thick yellow fog flowed<br \/>\namong the dense black trees<br \/>\nand the strange stars became familiar<\/p>\n<p>when the trees crack open<br \/>\nwill they still be our children?<\/p>\n<h6>illustration By Caspar David Friedrich &#8211; The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=151076<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this world is not of our choosing no we did not choose this world of dense black forests and thick yellow fog and stinging rain woken too soon from our centuries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sleep stranded beneath strange stars and our children died and our children died and our children died the trees shivered with our grief and [&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-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}