{"id":827,"date":"2014-03-10T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2014-03-08T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:24:33","slug":"world-apart-by-mary-alexander-agner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Apart, by Mary Alexandra Agner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_829\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Abramson_Larry_Column_VII_1988B90_0049_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-829\" alt=\"The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Collection; Purchase, Boxenbaum-Neta Fund; Artwork copyright of the artist ; Photo copyright The Israel Museum, Jerusalem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Abramson_Larry_Column_VII_1988B90_0049_1-149x300.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Abramson_Larry_Column_VII_1988B90_0049_1-149x300.jpg 149w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Abramson_Larry_Column_VII_1988B90_0049_1.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Column VII by Larry Abramson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the Moon wants<br \/>\nto go home.\u00c2\u00a0 You have cosseted it,<br \/>\ngiven it cake and cookies,<br \/>\nadmired its fullness as a function<br \/>\nof time.\u00c2\u00a0 It has kept you up<br \/>\nlate with its returned volley<br \/>\nof flattery and I desperately want<br \/>\nfor you to come to bed,<br \/>\nwarm depression in the mattress<br \/>\nbeside me as we co-pilot into sleep.<br \/>\nFrom the darkness I hear your laughter<br \/>\nand know it has fooled you<br \/>\nthrough one more story, tenderly<br \/>\nwiping the dust from your eyes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a poor lover, voyeur<br \/>\nin my own home, unable to take<br \/>\nthe stairs and step into the brilliance.<br \/>\nI believe in choice.<br \/>\nWhen you ran away with me<br \/>\nmy metal heart nearly burst.<br \/>\nChoose again, choose me again.<br \/>\nMoon and spoon may rhyme<br \/>\nbut we are worlds apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think the Moon wants to go home.\u00c2\u00a0 You have cosseted it, given it cake and cookies, admired its fullness as a function of time.\u00c2\u00a0 It has kept you up late with its returned volley of flattery and I desperately want for you to come to bed, warm depression in the mattress beside me [&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-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}