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\"'Morose<\/a>
Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
WHISPERS<\/em> 

the face<\/strong>
that launched
<\/span>a thousand ships<\/strong>
has sailed<\/strong>
and not in beauty<\/strong>

her grim departure<\/strong>
from recurring cancer<\/strong>
failed to interfere<\/strong>
with his sexual pleasure
which is something <\/span><\/span>to ponder
besides Spinoza<\/strong>

jh<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>
Drawing \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
MORE WHISPERS<\/em><\/strong>

he has<\/strong>
cannibal teeth
& sparkling eyes
but foiled by oblivion
lies eyeless 
beneath the sand<\/strong>

had he
simply disappeared
no worms ... no flames
it would have eased <\/strong>
the matter<\/strong>

jh<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHISPERS <\/p>\n
the face
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\na thousand ships
\nhas sailed
\nand not in beauty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29720,"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":[19,18,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/morose-delectation-20-1-1981-400.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-g9W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120","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=62120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62194,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions\/62194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}