{"id":702,"date":"2013-06-24T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2013-06-23T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T16:47:58","slug":"solstice-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Solstice by Sandi Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Midsummer night,&#8221;<br \/>\nI whisper to you, already asleep;<br \/>\n&#8220;if we make love, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll conceive<br \/>\na divine child.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-family: Garamond, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">She will babble a bard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wisdom,<br \/>\nhe will lullaby the darkness down.<br \/>\nEnter me, and enter summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kingdom,<br \/>\nlet me thaw your winter heart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">You protest by shielding<br \/>\nyour eyes with your hands.<br \/>\nYou don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waken,<br \/>\nwon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turn to my sun.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">I am no fire of bones<br \/>\nstartling the wheat to life,<br \/>\ninspiring the poppies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bloom,<br \/>\nno blazing brand that ignites the green.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">But as I undress, a moth encircles me,<br \/>\ntravels the briars of my hair,<br \/>\nbatters itself against my skin<br \/>\nas if I were a flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Large_bonfire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-705\" alt=\"Large_bonfire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Large_bonfire-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Large_bonfire-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Large_bonfire.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Midsummer night,&#8221; I whisper to you, already asleep; &#8220;if we make love, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll conceive a divine child. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She will babble a bard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wisdom, he will lullaby the darkness down. Enter me, and enter summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kingdom, let me thaw your winter heart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You protest by shielding your eyes with your hands. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waken, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t [&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-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}