Today we learned about endings<\/p>\n
How to create<\/p>\n
a lingering sense<\/p>\n
of full mouth and belly,<\/p>\n
the lasting sting of a slap,<\/p>\n
unvanquished, unyielding<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n How the shortest letter might<\/p>\n survive the thought that formed it,<\/p>\n ourselves,<\/em><\/p>\n our tombs,<\/em><\/p>\n and become a lasting link<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018Le fin est assez tragique<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n But Wilde only ever expected<\/p>\n to be mourned as an outcast<\/p>\n by outcasts<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We\u00a0say goodbye sweetly<\/p>\n the sanctimonious<\/p>\n pleasure of the succinct<\/p>\n but we are borne back,<\/em><\/p>\n ceaselessly, into the past<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A dead language\u00a0on the grave of a Russian accentologist<\/p>\n says\u00a0\u2018Language is a ford through the river of time<\/em><\/p>\n It leads us to the dwelling of those gone before;<\/em><\/p>\n But he cannot arrive there<\/em><\/p>\n Who fears deep water’<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We must not be afraid<\/p>\n to choose the last word<\/p>\n and let it speak\u00a0ceaselessly.<\/p>\n Nevermore<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we learned about endings How to create a lingering sense of full mouth and belly, the lasting sting of a slap, unvanquished, unyielding \u00a0 How the shortest letter might Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}