{"id":1773,"date":"2018-08-06T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2018-08-05T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:04:56","slug":"1773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Speaks Five Names by Megan Arkenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. Taliesin<\/div>\n

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I am the blank space inside<\/div>\n
the first word you ever spoke.<\/div>\n
I am an extraordinary<\/div>\n
nothing,<\/div>\n
less than shadow,<\/div>\n
less than silence.<\/div>\n
Beautiful boy, riddle me this.<\/div>\n

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2. Ambrosius<\/div>\n

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I know every spell you ever cast.<\/div>\n
I know your secret, too. You<\/div>\n
were always drunk on everything,<\/div>\n
on champagne sunlight, cigarette<\/div>\n
butts spelling secret messages<\/div>\n
on sidewalks, in gutters<\/div>\n
but looking at the stars; your magic,<\/div>\n
late afternoon smell of Chinese<\/div>\n
banyan leaves rustling in cracked<\/div>\n
concrete, gasoline breezes. Those trees<\/div>\n
clinging through earthquake, through fire,<\/div>\n
waiting for a riddle, a night,<\/div>\n
a rush, a car, a boy<\/div>\n
so drunk on everything that he<\/div>\n
could hear the dragons fighting in their roots.<\/div>\n

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3. Merlin<\/div>\n

Whosever pulls this sword
\nfrom this three-in-the-morning
\nstab of insomnia, right here<\/p>\n

between my eyes,<\/div>\n
between the whine of the train on the bridge<\/div>\n
and the car alarm in the parking lot,<\/div>\n
between me and you and<\/div>\n
regret, regret, regret<\/div>\n
is probably a myth, and sorry to tell you,<\/div>\n
pretty boy,<\/div>\n
but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fresh out of faith,<\/div>\n
imagination, dreams.<\/div>\n
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4. Emrys<\/div>\n

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Beautiful boy, riddle me this.<\/div>\n
Pretty blackbird eyes<\/div>\n
birdsong Welsh-poetry boy:<\/div>\n
how fast were you going that night,<\/div>\n
and what was the name of the neighbor<\/div>\n
who woke and called the police<\/div>\n
and did she cry, later, and<\/div>\n
did you know how fast you were going,<\/div>\n
and what is the sound<\/div>\n
a tree makes when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being<\/div>\n
enfolded<\/div>\n
by the world?<\/div>\n
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5. Cambion<\/div>\n

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I looked away.<\/div>\n
Only for a moment, I looked away.<\/div>\n
The tree opened its arms and<\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 wrapped<\/div>\n
itself<\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0around<\/div>\n
\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0you<\/div>\n
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(the world).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Page of an edition (1907, J. Gwenogvryn Evans) of the Black Book of Carmarthen<\/a><\/i> (1250).<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Taliesin   I am the blank space inside the first word you ever spoke. I am an extraordinary nothing, less than shadow, less than silence. Beautiful boy, riddle me this.   2. Ambrosius   I know every spell you ever cast. I know your secret, too. You were always drunk on everything, on champagne […]<\/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-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}