{"id":1824,"date":"2018-10-08T06:03:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2018-09-30T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T19:29:45","slug":"moon-scribe-by-lisa-m-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"Moon Scribe by Lisa M. Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ivan_Constantinovich_Aivazovsky_View_of_Constantinople_1876-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1825\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ivan_Constantinovich_Aivazovsky_View_of_Constantinople_1876-251x300.jpg 251w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ivan_Constantinovich_Aivazovsky_View_of_Constantinople_1876.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My patron impresses paramours<br \/>\nwith moon shards dappled in 24-karat gold<br \/>\nand fashioned into pendants<br \/>\nfor fawn-colored necks, diadems to adorn<br \/>\nblack brows smooth as glass.<br \/>\nBut for his favorite fucks<br \/>\ncelestial jewelry is not enough\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nmy patron demands poetry of me,<br \/>\nsinuous verses that ensnare emotion,<br \/>\nbinding his beauties to him better<br \/>\nthan any promise ring or<br \/>\ndiamond-crusted chastity belt.<br \/>\nA disgusting seduction<br \/>\nbut one I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m obligated to perform<br \/>\nor end up fighting<br \/>\nalley cats for scraps.<br \/>\nOnly, my patron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mining operations<br \/>\nharrow the source of my lyrics.<br \/>\nPoetry is a refraction,<br \/>\na transmutation of moonlight<br \/>\n(itself a reflection of sunlight).<br \/>\nThe moon he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrought, hanging like<br \/>\na chipped saucer in the night,<br \/>\nconjures no more magic than<br \/>\nthe broken crockery on my kitchen shelf.<br \/>\nThough I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve explained the effects<br \/>\nof his brutal lunar harvest,<br \/>\nthe scales of his eyes aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t calibrated<br \/>\nfor the subtle calculus<br \/>\nof art and heart.<br \/>\nAccused of disloyalty, sloth, and<br \/>\nbreach of contract, I stalk<br \/>\nhis moon-embellished lovers,<br \/>\nstruggling to distill the secondhand light<br \/>\nto pen a last, paltry sonnet and escape<br \/>\ninto the plundered night.<\/p>\n<h6> Illustration is View of Constantinople by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, 1876<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My patron impresses paramours with moon shards dappled in 24-karat gold and fashioned into pendants for fawn-colored necks, diadems to adorn black brows smooth as glass. But for his favorite fucks celestial jewelry is not enough\u00e2\u20ac\u201d my patron demands poetry of me, sinuous verses that ensnare emotion, binding his beauties to him better than any [&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-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}