{"id":1852,"date":"2018-11-05T05:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2018-11-05T05:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T12:16:32","slug":"song-of-the-severed-feet-by-sandi-leibowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Severed Feet by Sandi Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The_Red_Shoes_-_Anne_Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"831\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The_Red_Shoes_-_Anne_Anderson.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/The_Red_Shoes_-_Anne_Anderson-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nYou were too timorous for us,<br \/>\nold husk that weighed us down<br \/>\nlike an anchor.<br \/>\nYou cared what gossips whispered.<br \/>\nYou stalled and repented and wept<br \/>\nwhen we would have leapt.  <\/p>\n<p>The scarlet silk called to you, true,<br \/>\nbut in the end you had a grey soul<br \/>\nmore suitable to prim pumps<br \/>\nor straight-laced oxfords<br \/>\nthan for dancing slippers.<br \/>\nSeven-league boots would have done for us<br \/>\nalmost as well<br \/>\nbut you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never have tugged them on.<\/p>\n<p>Once the red shoes wrapped around us,<br \/>\nwe knew we were meant for more<br \/>\nthan sermons and solicitude,<br \/>\ncradles and kaffe-klatches.<\/p>\n<p>So when you cried out to the woodcutter,<br \/>\nwe rejoiced,<br \/>\nglad to be cut free of you at last.<\/p>\n<p>Dance, now we dance!<br \/>\nOut of shadowed forests,<br \/>\naway from the cemeteries,<br \/>\nbeyond the suburbs,<br \/>\nto crater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rim and glacier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hulk,<br \/>\nthrough blizzard and sirocco<br \/>\nto foreign cities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 din and crush.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t grimace through the pain,<br \/>\nreach that place where you<br \/>\nforget the audience,<br \/>\nforget even yourself.<br \/>\nBut we know\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe know!\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nwe never needed you.<br \/>\nPirouetting through the theatre of the world,<br \/>\nwe are the Dance.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were too timorous for us, old husk that weighed us down like an anchor. You cared what gossips whispered. You stalled and repented and wept when we would have leapt. The scarlet silk called to you, true, but in the end you had a grey soul more suitable to prim pumps or straight-laced oxfords [&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-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}