Weaving nettle shirts was easy enough \u00e2\u20ac\u201c
\npulling the stinging threads across the loom
\nonly leaves my skin feeling torn and rough.<\/p>\n
The silence: that stings. In my quiet room,
\nI hunger for words, as my tongue stays trapped.
\nPulling the stinging threads across the loom,<\/p>\n
I try to forget, to keep myself wrapped
\nagainst laughter. My fingers burn. And yet
\nI hunger for words, as my tongue stays trapped<\/p>\n
in this seven year silence, this rough net
\nof freedom and spells, where I must still hold
\nagainst laughter.\u00c2\u00a0 My fingers burn. And yet.<\/p>\n
I pick up a dark feather, not consoled,
\nthinking of whispers in a lover’s ear,
\nof freedom and spells. Where I must still hold<\/p>\n
to my rough weavings, where each voiceless year
\nonly leaves my skin feeling torn and rough,
\nthinking of whispers in a lover’s ear.
\nWeaving nettle shirts was easy enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Weaving nettle shirts was easy enough \u00e2\u20ac\u201c pulling the stinging threads across the loom only leaves my skin feeling torn and rough. The silence: that stings. In my quiet room, I hunger for words, as my tongue stays trapped. Pulling the stinging threads across the loom, I try to forget, to keep myself wrapped against […]<\/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-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}