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from<\/em> Cold Turkey Press<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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FOR TH\u00c9OPHILE GAUTIER<\/em><\/strong>\n\nLeaning on the elbow of eternity,<\/strong>\nyou say there is nothing\u2014\u2014not the leafy<\/strong>\ngreen cathedral of trees, nor the rich scent<\/strong>\nof pine in the air\u2014\u2014but space and shadows.<\/strong>\nAnd the rust-red earth of the road,<\/strong>\nwhere does it lead? To basement dust<\/strong>\nand attic relics. Perhaps to a hidden tide.<\/strong>\nThe dead past is gone, the future with it.<\/strong>\nThis is what is\u2014\u2014the serenity of now<\/strong>\nsuspended like cumulus clouds, the night<\/strong>\nfreshened with rain and shafts of white<\/strong>\nmoonlight so bright I can read you<\/strong>\nby the window. This is the tide<\/strong> \nhidden from the volcano\u2019s molten flux.<\/strong>\n\nJH<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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FOR TH\u00c9OPHILE GAUTIER<\/p>\n
This is what is\u2014\u2014the serenity of now
\nsuspended like cumulus clouds, the night
\nfreshened with rain and shafts of white
\nmoonlight so bright I can read you
\nby the window. This is the tide hidden
\nfrom the volcano\u2019s molten flux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40482,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SECOND-CHOICE-I-like-the-expression-of-the-eyes-and-it-faces-forward.-wld-be-first-choice-if-you-did-a-portrait-sketch-from-it..jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-awP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71858,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40475\/revisions\/71858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}