{"id":587,"date":"2012-03-27T04:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:10:27","slug":"the-messenger-ensnared-by-lisa-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"The Messenger Ensnared, by Lisa Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_588\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dying-fox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-588\" title=\"Dying fox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dying-fox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dying-fox.jpg 333w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dying-fox-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Stephen Lippay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wounded,<\/p>\n<p>I sink into your flowerbed,<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372519\">succumb to enchanted sleep.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372521\">Purple ropes lash all four legs<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372523\">to the worm-rich ground<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372513\">and lavender stink invades my dreams.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372526\">Grackles laugh. My tail twitches at the sound.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372530\">Waking,<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372532\">I wince at cold needles,<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372534\">damn the rain that dissolves<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372536\">my auburn fur and vulpine claws.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372538\">Mind and message melting,<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372540\">I now resolve: these dregs shall poison<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_5_1332802912372542\">your salvia, fell your foxgloves bright and tall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Bradley has sold poetry\u00c2\u00a0 to <em id=\"yui_3_2_0_11_1332802912372529\">GUD, Strange Horizons, <\/em>and <em id=\"yui_3_2_0_11_1332802912372533\">Bull Spec<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find more of Stephen Lippay&#8217;s photography at \u00c2\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_2_0_8_1332802912372403\" href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyinimagery.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ajourneyinimagery.blogspot.com\/<\/a>, or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/slippay\/collections\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/slippay\/collections\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wounded, I sink into your flowerbed, succumb to enchanted sleep. Purple ropes lash all four legs to the worm-rich ground and lavender stink invades my dreams. Grackles laugh. My tail twitches at the sound. Waking, I wince at cold needles, damn the rain that dissolves my auburn fur and vulpine claws. Mind and message melting, [&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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}