{"id":191,"date":"2005-06-16T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/2005\/06\/16\/first-kiss-191\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:04:48","slug":"first-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/first-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"first kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yes i remember the place<br \/>\nand the taste of your throat<br \/>\ndown the tracks through a hole in the fence<br \/>\nin the warehouse though an empty window frame<\/p>\n<p>a mass-grave of books<br \/>\nsloughing towards the rafters<br \/>\nhalf rotted in the leaking rain<br \/>\nwith the occasional treasure:<br \/>\nblack-letter geometry &#8212; 1696,<br \/>\nlatin novella &#8212; 1705.<br \/>\nforgotten books, their flaking secrets<br \/>\nnow my charge and purpose<\/p>\n<p>aluminum cigar tubes, polished black stones inside: inexplicable<br \/>\na rodent flattened by some vanished weight, matted to paper and bones<br \/>\nbucket of pellets in a room with chains and hooks: cyanide<br \/>\nand everywhere the sunlight streaming from high windows<br \/>\ncars passing outside<br \/>\npigeons in the rafters<br \/>\nthe fear of getting caught<\/p>\n<p>this place was planted<br \/>\nbeyond the borders of control &#8212;<br \/>\na forgotten corner of an institution<br \/>\nwhere we crawled in our time<br \/>\nnow long torn down<\/p>\n<p>in a storage room with half a chair<br \/>\nwe dropped our bags and learned<br \/>\nthe gentle lessons<br \/>\nof lips and breath<br \/>\nand saying nothing<br \/>\namid the book-rot<br \/>\nand debris<\/p>\n<p>now i punch my fist through the window<br \/>\nnow i rescue this tragedy<br \/>\ni will pull a railroad spike from its hole<br \/>\nwhen there is nothing left to say<br \/>\nwhen words have crumbled into dust<br \/>\nand pin this memory to the world<br \/>\nin a spray of rust and rot and sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yes i remember the place \/ and the taste of your throat<br \/>\ndown the tracks through a hole in the fence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[284,213,210,86,251],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-book","tag-kiss","tag-loss","tag-memory","tag-rust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}