{"id":6319,"date":"2022-06-03T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:13:35","slug":"poet-fails-grasp-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2022\/06\/03\/poet-fails-grasp-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Sonnet No. e<sup>i\u03c0<\/sup>+1. In Which the Poet Fails to Grasp His Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dry leaf crumbling in the toddler\u2019s fist,<br \/>\nThe cloud-form wind-rent at the careless naming,<br \/>\nThe fluttering dream that flees the day\u2019s periphery,<br \/>\nThe memory-scent long rotted from its root:<br \/>\nThe lover hard pursued will not be kissed<br \/>\nNor love be raveled out from life\u2019s polyphony;<br \/>\nThe truth, that beaten dog, is loath to trust us<br \/>\n\u2019Til it lay its head unbidden at our foot.<br \/>\nAnd still with art the cunning mind constructs<br \/>\nIts algorithms and its aqueducts<br \/>\nTo calculate the right, to channel justice,<br \/>\nEnumerate the light and catch the raining&#8230;<br \/>\nOnce holding, we behold what\u2019s left us then:<br \/>\nWater wisps that cling to porcelain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dry leaf crumbling in the toddler\u2019s fist, The cloud-form wind-rent at the careless naming, The fluttering dream that flees the day\u2019s periphery, The memory-scent long rotted from its root: The lover hard pursued will not be kissed Nor love be raveled out from life\u2019s polyphony; The truth, that beaten dog, is loath to trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[82,642,276],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-1DV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}