{"id":5813,"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:18:43","slug":"woman-ii-and-impressionist-with-synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/woman-ii-and-impressionist-with-synesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman II and Impressionist with Synesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/woman-ii-and-impressionist-with-synesthesia\/womanii_585x585\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5919\" alt=\"WomanII_585x585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WomanII_585x585.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WomanII_585x585.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WomanII_585x585-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WomanII_585x585-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light clinging to my teeth, the pulleys in my cheeks<\/p>\n<p>playing tug of war relentlessly, wondering if the noise of my smile<\/p>\n<p>is singing through inadequate walls, I sail away<\/p>\n<p>on the aqueous backs of day dreams easily, often now;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A fire I plucked from a match on a balmy Monday<\/p>\n<p>sustained itself to live in my plexus and it wrecks me,<\/p>\n<p>spreading light through cracks like crystalline dust<\/p>\n<p>forming a haze in which I swim, sanguinely;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June living in my cheeks, Sahara heat<\/p>\n<p>dances on the tips of my lips, two cinnamon sticks;<\/p>\n<p>I am knowing, allowing, seeing everything<\/p>\n<p>with the eyes of the Sun:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another person has folded into my spine<\/p>\n<p>like a note to be found later, to be read late at night,<\/p>\n<p>speaking life to a secret, laughing sweetly,<\/p>\n<p>revealing Herself as if She had been there the whole time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Impressionist with Synesthesia<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have been so dirty in all the places you have looked.<br \/>\nMy skin drinks in your iris stain like salt. We toss,<br \/>\nfreely and with fever, a mirror all drained of luster,<br \/>\noften awake to view the pennied moon illusion bound<br \/>\nto waves. Our bed clothes, as trophies, litter the sidewalks.<br \/>\nI try, inside the sun\u2019s palms and slighter fires, to blot<br \/>\nthe spatter we left behind by sucking bullets from each<br \/>\nothers\u2019 mouths. With a head of wine, swimming in<br \/>\nthe thickness of blood, I hold this illustrious description<br \/>\nunderwater, a bold reflection crushed and served bitter,<br \/>\nhoney-sweet and hot, staining the chalice. It comes gingerly,<br \/>\nbrief but still fierce, and your leaving crumbles, stumbling<br \/>\nand clinging to your hazed and etched silhouette, rising<br \/>\nvisible and liquid. Such a ripe and balmy display we<br \/>\nhave become, a still life paradox hung on the walls of night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light clinging to my teeth, the pulleys in my cheeks<\/p>\n<p>playing tug of war relentlessly, wondering if the noise of my smile<\/p>\n<p>is singing through inadequate walls, I sail away<\/p>\n<p>on the aqueous backs of day dreams easily, often now;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}