{"id":1665,"date":"2018-03-19T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2018-03-18T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T21:20:09","slug":"spell-for-spring-by-joshua-gage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Spell for Spring by Joshua Gage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/American_weeds_and_useful_plants_BHL32411000-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/American_weeds_and_useful_plants_BHL32411000-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/American_weeds_and_useful_plants_BHL32411000.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As if it was merely a matter of wine and parchment,<br \/>\npolished glass and hammered copper, the condensation<br \/>\nresounds against the pulse ticking in your throat.<br \/>\nIf you pierce the eyes of crows, lace them together<br \/>\nwith crimson silk, they still summon the darkest nights.<\/p>\n<p>That swelling in your belly will be milkweed,<br \/>\nswallow wort, goldenrod. Your lips<br \/>\nwill give shape the way mares give milk. Syllables, strung<br \/>\nlike abalone on a thread of sunlight, will scatter<br \/>\nlike so much rice. They will sting like fresh cream<br \/>\non a sliced tongue. The frost tightens its noose,<br \/>\nbut your words are betrothed to the ripe sun,<br \/>\nand your ululations crepe the branches heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Your body gives the soil its permission<br \/>\nas the light nestles in your palm like fur<br \/>\nand bone, and you kneel in the green confusion and weep.<\/p>\n<h6>illustration is American weeds and useful plants: being a second and illustrated edition of Agricultural botany by William Darlington<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if it was merely a matter of wine and parchment, polished glass and hammered copper, the condensation resounds against the pulse ticking in your throat. If you pierce the eyes of crows, lace them together with crimson silk, they still summon the darkest nights. That swelling in your belly will be milkweed, swallow wort, [&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-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","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=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}