{"id":764,"date":"2013-09-09T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2013-09-02T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T17:35:44","slug":"wisdom-of-the-sidhe-lords-lover-by-sandi-leibowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of the Sidhe Lord&#8217;s Lover by Sandi Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The straw beneath me has already<br \/>\nsent up its ghosts, wisps of smoke,<br \/>\nto pester me like flies.<br \/>\nBeads of sweat jewel me<br \/>\nlike a rose at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What have you learned?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they ask me,<br \/>\nthe men grim as iron.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned that missing<br \/>\nhis hands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gentleness<br \/>\npierces like thorns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do you confess?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they ask.<\/p>\n<p>I confess the flames feel<br \/>\ncool as snow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caress<br \/>\ncompared to the heat of his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You pay for your sin<br \/>\nwith your soul,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they tell me.<\/p>\n<p>I paid for my wild dance<br \/>\nwith my wild heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you care for the cost?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they ask.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the patter<br \/>\nof his lips on mine<br \/>\nlike clink of coin,<br \/>\nbright as candle-flame in shadow,<br \/>\nhow in daylight all that gold<br \/>\nturned to dust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1851_Junge_Hexe_zum_Scheiterhaufen_gef\u00c3\u00bchrt_anagoria-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-767\" alt=\"1851_Junge_Hexe,_zum_Scheiterhaufen_gef\u00c3\u00bchrt_anagoria (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1851_Junge_Hexe_zum_Scheiterhaufen_gef\u00c3\u00bchrt_anagoria-1-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The straw beneath me has already sent up its ghosts, wisps of smoke, to pester me like flies. Beads of sweat jewel me like a rose at dawn. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What have you learned?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they ask me, the men grim as iron. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned that missing his hands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gentleness pierces like thorns. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do you confess?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}