{"id":573,"date":"2012-03-05T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:41:02","slug":"emerge-ravenous-by-bethany-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Emerge Ravenous, by Bethany Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMERGE RAVENOUS<\/p>\n<p> We are dragons again.<br \/>\n For some years we were men<br \/>\n And dressed our skins with suits.<br \/>\n Hats hid our eyes,<br \/>\n Vests were disguise<br \/>\n For heat of heart\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand we were tame.<br \/>\n For a while.<\/p>\n<p> We forgot what hats covered<br \/>\n Our sons were smothered<br \/>\n Not knowing their own fire.<br \/>\n Things will burn now<br \/>\n As they burst out,<br \/>\n As we must.<br \/>\n The dragon does not die.<\/p>\n<p> The drum in our chest beats.<br \/>\n A warrior may retreat<br \/>\n But a blaze<br \/>\n Never loses hunger.<br \/>\n These are wild times again<br \/>\n To be more than men,<br \/>\n Leaving our caves to unshackle these wings.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany is a fiber artist who creates yarn themed on fantasy, cartoon<br \/>\ncharacters, and book covers. This pursuit inspired the first poem she<br \/>\npublished. She lives in Oklahoma for the time being, on a marginally<br \/>\nsuccessful homestead with her family. She blogs about books, writing<br \/>\nwoes, and Asian TV at hakusa-tegami.livejournal.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMERGE RAVENOUS We are dragons again. For some years we were men And dressed our skins with suits. Hats hid our eyes, Vests were disguise For heat of heart\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand we were tame. For a while. We forgot what hats covered Our sons were smothered Not knowing their own fire. Things will burn now As they [&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-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}