{"id":12681,"date":"2015-05-16T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/these-poems-she-said\/"},"modified":"2015-05-16T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T14:49:54","slug":"these-poems-she-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/these-poems-she-said\/","title":{"rendered":"These Poems, She Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naranzarian.com\/post\/119099058385\/these-poems-she-said\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">naranzarian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These poems, these poems,<br \/>these poems, she said, are poems<br \/>with no love in them. These are the poems of a man<br \/>who would leave his wife and child because<br \/>they made noise in his study. These are the poems<br \/>of a man who would murder his mother to claim<br \/>the inheritance. These are the poems of a man<br \/>like Plato, she said, meaning something I did not<br \/>comprehend but which nevertheless<br \/>offended me. These are the poems of a man<br \/>who would rather sleep with himself than with women,<br \/>she said. These are the poems of a man<br \/>with eyes like a drawknife, with hands like a pickpocket\u2019s<br \/>hands, woven of water and logic<br \/>and hunger, with no strand of love in them. These<br \/>poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant<br \/>as elm leaves, which if they love love only<br \/>the wide blue sky and the air and the idea<br \/>of elm leaves. Self-love is an ending, she said,<br \/>and not a beginning. Love means love<br \/>of the thing sung, not of the song or the singing.<br \/>These poems, she said\u2026.<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You are, he said,<br \/>beautiful.<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 That is not love, she said rightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0Robert Bringhurst\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>naranzarian: These poems, these poems,these poems, she said, are poemswith no love in them. These are the poems of a manwho would leave his wife and child becausethey made noise in his study. These are the poemsof a man who would murder his mother to claimthe inheritance. These are the poems of a manlike Plato, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}