Earth as an apple<\/p>\n
I little tiny<\/p>\n
Ants as soon as I notice<\/p>\n
how they enter their houses,<\/p>\n
how they bend under the berry,<\/p>\n
as soon as I follow the ladybug far and see<\/p>\n
lands again on a flower that bends,<\/p>\n
dancing<\/p>\n
bows then draws something buzzing<\/p>\n
multiplies as if the meadow<\/p>\n
and sways it<\/p>\n
I smell smoke but I also smell myself<\/p>\n
we take potatoes out of the embers and make up<\/p>\n
The potato skins swell with joy from the fire,<\/p>\n
I can feel the words crumbling inside them<\/p>\n
and don’t want to give away the experience,<\/p>\n
they thicken the smell of ash and are silent,<\/p>\n
their silence is visible<\/p>\n
loving,<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>somehow slowly<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>somehow frightening<\/p>\n I have put on mother’s dress of green velvet<\/p>\n over my brother’s trousers<\/p>\n And I tell you, I have a gold dress too,<\/p>\n and I’m telling stories with it…<\/p>\n if we were telling on the fire, and the fire<\/p>\n tells on the potatoes,<\/p>\n and they tell to the wind,<\/p>\n or the order is another the wind tells<\/p>\n to the potatoes, which like dead men,<\/p>\n tell dumbly, and then the fire does not,<\/p>\n the fire only burns<\/p>\n I was actually afraid, the potatoes if they tell that they are stolen<\/p>\n we were creating a gang biography, we were skipping in the vineyards<\/p>\n for milk corn, pears, okra,… we look around in the<\/p>\n mirrors of sunflower cakes<\/p>\n we’ll walk in the ravine<\/p>\n to the robbers<\/p>\n But she won’t come,<\/p>\n because…<\/p>\n She against the chief<\/p>\n (she has long eyelashes because her grandmother is a beautician and<\/p>\n gives her eyelash ointment to put on them, which<\/p>\n her aunt cures bald men)<\/p>\n when I stood by the big walnut tree<\/p>\n between her and the chief<\/p>\n and saved her<\/p>\n when the wind blew from the ravine<\/p>\n and we all started for the robber’s hangout<\/p>\n and came back with a handful of snuff for our wounds<\/p>\n (she was healing donkey wounds too, she said)<\/p>\n I knew that my conversation<\/p>\n with the far things<\/p>\n remains borne<\/p>\n by the wind<\/p>\n with the smell of embers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earth as an apple I little tiny Ants as soon as I notice how they enter their houses, how they bend under the berry, as soon as I follow the ladybug far and see lands again on a flower that bends, dancing bows then draws something buzzing multiplies as if the meadow and sways it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-other-publications.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-publications"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowstreetsea.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}