{"id":360,"date":"2018-11-11T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:45:24","slug":"360-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/?page_id=360","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><em>Gaspard the nightwalker<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ever-bright, like the flames of this<\/p>\n<p>land, refuse to land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like fire, these rocks glint a surprise<\/p>\n<p>of ground-fog. you, too, see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the split\u2014watching it burn. grey<\/p>\n<p>parts for air. the whoosh of sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and a moon, more than half-closed,<\/p>\n<p>gloat much\u2014too much for comfort<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>or curtain. so what if I would<\/p>\n<p>rather watch the fit from here?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>see flame as the house, with no<\/p>\n<p>idea of ceil or sealing, but for what<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>one has taught and housed with it.<\/p>\n<p>this, my argument, do understand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>some call me the nightwalker,<\/p>\n<p>because I cannot be seen\u2014am,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>essentially, invisible. I can set fire<\/p>\n<p>to bodies, then flirt a feather back<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>into tempered symmetry. darling,<\/p>\n<p>when I dare you back, I feel nothing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for you. walk out onto the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">*previous version of this poem published in <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1322&amp;context=ellipsis\"><em>Ellipsis<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspard the nightwalker &nbsp; ever-bright, like the flames of this land, refuse to land. &nbsp; like fire, these rocks glint a surprise of ground-fog. you, too, see &nbsp; the split\u2014watching it burn. grey parts for air. the whoosh of sky &nbsp; and a moon, more than half-closed, gloat much\u2014too much for comfort &nbsp; or curtain. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/?page_id=360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainamonet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}