{"id":193,"date":"2010-01-15T00:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=193"},"modified":"2024-12-18T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:10:57","slug":"instincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2010\/01\/instincts\/","title":{"rendered":"Instincts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Upon the advice of the sage\n Who under\u2013valued himself\nI followed my instincts\n to my grandparents\u2019 graves\nThe largest orange ball I ever saw\n lingered, staring, sunsetless on the horizon\nI found myself in a vast tundra\n snow anonymizing the headstones\nand realized I would never find them\n\nI found myself amid the shrubbery\n Gazing at a statue\n Some ode to summer\n  I first thought of Daphne\n   the cruel beckoning of innocence\nHer regal repose, fully human\n rump reclining atop a vined column\n a jump\u2013rope of flora in her hands\n  changed all that\n   I thought of Fragonard\nWhere snow buries graves\n Here, it was petals of the season\n  accentuating her flowers\n  As white stone escaped\n   from the black barnacles of time\n    in spectacular bare shoulders\n     and graceful arms\nOh, gorgeous stomach\nOh, flowing, robust curves\nOh, folds, enfold me in every part\nOh, neck, throbbing with life\n         whose pronounced crook\n                        speaks the truth\n                        take me<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the advice of the sage Who under\u2013valued himself I followed my instincts to my grandparents\u2019 graves The largest orange ball I ever saw lingered, staring, sunsetless on the horizon I found myself in a vast tundra snow anonymizing the headstones and realized I would never find them I found myself amid the shrubbery Gazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-blue-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}