{"id":792,"date":"2013-11-25T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2013-11-24T17:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:57:33","slug":"lucuma-by-mari-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Lucuma by Mari Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2048px-Girl_with_a_pomegranate,_by_William_Bouguereau\"<\/a><\/div>\n
You burned my tales,<\/div>\n
but I shall tell you<\/div>\n
of how I ate the fruit<\/div>\n
that bore my child.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I found it in the wet muds<\/div>\n
of the mountains.<\/div>\n
the thick trees<\/div>\n
curled above<\/div>\n
the foaming waters.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The flesh of lucuma is hard,<\/div>\n
as an egg left too long in the desert sun.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
This is no fruit<\/div>\n
to be eaten swiftly.<\/div>\n
I held it in my breasts<\/div>\n
until it softened beneath the sun,<\/div>\n
its juices warm upon my skin.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The skin of lucuma is green,<\/div>\n
as the trees that huddle against the mountains.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The earth rocked beneath me<\/div>\n
as I ate.<\/div>\n
The thick trees<\/div>\n
curled above<\/div>\n
the foaming waters.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Sweet, sweet this fruit<\/div>\n
though the taste<\/div>\n
turned bitter.<\/div>\n
Heavy, heavy the seeds<\/div>\n
that lingered in my belly.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I stood beneath the moon<\/div>\n
and hungered.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Sweet, sweet the child<\/div>\n
that slid out beneath my legs.<\/div>\n
Bitter, bitter his cries, like the seas<\/div>\n
I used to quench his endless thirst.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The moon came to me as a beggar<\/div>\n
and claimed that he had made the child.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I spat my seeds into his face.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
You may say that this has not been told<\/div>\n
the way that things should be done.<\/div>\n
That no goddess could ever spit<\/div>\n
her rage against the moon.<\/div>\n
That I have not told the end, of how,<\/div>\n
I twisted my seed-son into rock<\/div>\n
and plunged with him into the sea,<\/div>\n
turning the oceans against the moon.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The moon pulls at me in the sea.<\/div>\n
The tide churns against my legs.<\/div>\n
But here I always have my son.<\/div>\n
Here I can spit at the moon,<\/div>\n
and sing my song to the wind.<\/div>\n
And I may say: shape my tale<\/div>\n
to whatever words you wish to hear.<\/div>\n
Whatever the tale you tell,<\/div>\n
I will stay here in the waters, singing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You burned my tales, but I shall tell you of how I ate the fruit that bore my child. I found it in the wet muds of the mountains. the thick trees curled above the foaming waters. The flesh of lucuma is hard, as an egg left too long in the desert sun. This is […]<\/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-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}