{"id":1314,"date":"2009-11-24T00:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/charles_simic_-_sloths_best\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:35:58","slug":"charles_simic_-_sloths_best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/charles_simic_-_sloths_best.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Simic &#8211; sloth&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sloth&#8217;s best. Lolling on a sofa <br \/>In a Chinese dressing gown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"geoffreychadseysofa.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/geoffreychadseysofa.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"711\" width=\"316\" \/>With the windows open in the heat,<br \/>The breeze rousing the leaves.<br \/>The flies dozing on the ceiling. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fredmuramkissceil.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/fredmuramkissceil.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"401\" width=\"401\" \/>The silky hush of a summer afternoon,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"glennrudolphgrbal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/glennrudolphgrbal.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"450\" width=\"450\" \/>Like floating on one&#8217;s back<br \/>With eyes closed in some pond<br \/>Clogged with water lilies,<br \/>Inhaling their scent as they nuzzle close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"geoffreychadseybed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/geoffreychadseybed.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"315\" width=\"401\" \/>The light and shade dillydallying,<br \/>The leaves sighing again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ericelliottPhotinia.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ericelliottPhotinia.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"484\" width=\"448\" \/>Afterward, not even that.<br \/>Majestic stupor. Stirring only at midnight<br \/>To click on the yellow table lamp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernardiroiglight.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/Bernardiroiglight.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"375\" width=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/27\">Charles Simic<\/a>, <i>The Secret Of The Yellow Room<\/i><br \/>Images: 1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Geoffrey%20Chadsey\/chadsey.htm\">Geoffrey Chadsey<\/a>. 2. <a href=\"http:\/\/fredmuram.com\/\">Fred Muram<\/a> 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/glennrudolph.com\/glennrudolph\/home.html\">Glenn Rudolph<\/a> 4. Chadsey 5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Eric%20Elliott\/elliott.htm\">Eric Elliott<\/a> 6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipanjepuntin.com\/desc.php?id_autore=47\">Bernardi Roig<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sloth&#8217;s best. Lolling on a sofa In a Chinese dressing gown With the windows open in the heat,The breeze rousing the leaves.The flies dozing on the ceiling. The silky hush of a summer afternoon, Like floating on one&#8217;s backWith eyes closed in some pondClogged with water lilies,Inhaling their scent as they nuzzle close. The light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}