{"id":2671,"date":"1996-12-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"1996-12-09T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T03:20:19","slug":"asymptote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/asymptote\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is increase today<br \/>\nI see myself fly<br \/>\npast row upon row of ordered neatness<br \/>\nDesert beneath me, papyrus sands beneath me<br \/>\nWhat day is this, come upon us like the end of words?<\/p>\n<p>The sky shakes like a frightened lamb<br \/>\nWhile the letters unbroken slide<br \/>\nThe whole sky is shaking<br \/>\nand I am so small<br \/>\nA drop in your ocean of sand<\/p>\n<p>There is talk in the village<br \/>\nAnd rumor in the field<br \/>\nA stranger! A stranger has come<br \/>\nspeaking the words of Man<br \/>\nwith the voice of lightning<br \/>\nin heavy clouds<\/p>\n<p>Why does the earth tremble like a leaf today?<br \/>\nAnd how the wilderness heaves!<br \/>\nIs it your wind that blows at last<br \/>\nthrough the dust and leaves<br \/>\nme scrawling my mark upon the sands?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one last drop of milk, of sweet water<br \/>\nbefore we fly<br \/>\nTo remember the gentle touch<br \/>\nof rain on hands<br \/>\nand of this tiny love,<br \/>\nbefore we increase forever<br \/>\ninspired <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is increase today I see myself fly past row upon row of ordered neatness Desert beneath me, papyrus sands beneath me What day is this, come upon us like the end of words? The sky shakes like a frightened lamb While the letters unbroken slide The whole sky is [&hellip;]<\/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":[28,201],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-apocalypse","tag-transformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}