{"id":1201,"date":"2007-04-17T23:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T04:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/04\/17\/offering\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T23:44:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T04:44:35","slug":"offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still National Poetry Month!  Today we transgress the &#8220;National&#8221; by including a Canadian; this is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.ca\/linktext\/direct\/labbe.htm\">Sonnet L&#8217;Abb\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vocabulary of desire<br \/>\n is incomplete, a word is missing.<\/p>\n<p>My tongue searches<br \/>\nfor your body in language<br \/>\nand finds you in every word.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a small thing, a stone<br \/>\nin the palm I could offer you,<br \/>\nmy body in darkness a simple gift<br \/>\ncasual as a pebble.<br \/>\nAs if touching were easier than speaking,<br \/>\nas if this poem did not prove you<br \/>\ninside me already, as if asking<br \/>\nmeant I still had the power to invite.<\/p>\n<p>But you make me aware of breathing,<br \/>\nof the awesome fact<br \/>\nthat each particle of air<br \/>\nhas been taken at least once<br \/>\ninto every lung.<br \/>\nSuddenly I have no boundaries<br \/>\nand to kiss you seems to drink up the sky,<br \/>\nslip it from my tongue into your mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies just our hearts&#8217; clothing,<br \/>\nand I came to you so shabbily dressed.<br \/>\nMaybe I thought that for one night<br \/>\nI could wear your beauty through closeness<br \/>\nand for a few hours believe myself<br \/>\nsplendidly arrayed.<\/p>\n<p>But you know all the lyrics<br \/>\nto rejection.<br \/>\nMy body, your exquisite voice&#8217;s<br \/>\nshattered glass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another one:  <a href=\"http:\/\/compost-hedgie.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/theory-my-natural-brown-ass-by-sonnet.html\">Theory My Natural Brown Ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still National Poetry Month! Today we transgress the &#8220;National&#8221; by including a Canadian; this is by Sonnet L&#8217;Abb\u00c3\u00a9. The vocabulary of desire is incomplete, a word is missing. My tongue searches for your body in language and finds you in every word. I thought this was a small thing, a stone in the palm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}