{"id":1870,"date":"2018-12-10T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2018-12-15T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T00:06:49","slug":"regrets-of-the-sea-witch-by-sandi-leibowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1870","title":{"rendered":"Regrets of the Wind Witch by Sandi Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/640px-Joos_de_Momper_the_Younger_-_Storm_at_Sea_-_WGA3342-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1872\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/640px-Joos_de_Momper_the_Younger_-_Storm_at_Sea_-_WGA3342-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/640px-Joos_de_Momper_the_Younger_-_Storm_at_Sea_-_WGA3342.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this flimsy, sea-sodden paper<br \/>\nI write your favorite words,<br \/>\nspell the color of your eyes,<br \/>\nthe feel of your lips on mine.<br \/>\nBut the wind won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me<br \/>\nwhere you are.<\/p>\n<p>I was an angry thing,<br \/>\nforgetful of my vows,<br \/>\nunwary of my passion.<br \/>\nNow I would call you back,<br \/>\nforgive you your transgressions,<br \/>\nas I ask forgiveness for my own lapse.<br \/>\nOne sin should not excuse<br \/>\nthe tempest I unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>On what far shore does your body lie wrecked?<br \/>\nThe winds won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me.<br \/>\nI would blow you home to my arms,<br \/>\nlet you weep repentance there;<br \/>\na weeping man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alive<br \/>\nand capable of redemption.<\/p>\n<p>Sand will blow in upon the waves,<br \/>\nin years restore the shore in a new shape.<br \/>\nThe leafless trees will bud.<br \/>\nSurvivors will re-people the isles<br \/>\nthat shuddered at my tantrum.<br \/>\nBut how shall I rebuild?<\/p>\n<p>They say when a wind-catcher violates<br \/>\nher truce with the gods<br \/>\nthe winds keep silent forever.<br \/>\nThey do not lie.<br \/>\nI strain and hear nothing,<br \/>\njust the creak and strain of<br \/>\nbroken branches,<br \/>\nthe groan of leaning timbers,<br \/>\nthe scattering of someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unmoored photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this flimsy, sea-sodden paper I write your favorite words, spell the color of your eyes, the feel of your lips on mine. But the wind won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me where you are. I was an angry thing, forgetful of my vows, unwary of my passion. Now I would call you back, forgive you your transgressions, [&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-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","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=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}