{"id":1731,"date":"2014-01-20T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:01:51","slug":"first-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"First Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A match whose flare<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is \u00a0closed from fear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">in the cupped hands<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">of our uncanny holding,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we make the walls flicker<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">with our whispers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Together we come<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">zooming in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <i>The curation of my old notebooks and typescripts continues. A first draft conveying this image is forty years old, but the experience it alludes to certainly pre-dated even that moment of relative maturity.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>At some point in the not-so-distant future, there might have to be a footnote attached to explain that in those years, couples took pleasure in smoking together, that cigarettes were lighted with matches, which had to be sheltered from breeze.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_1731\"  data-site_id=\"56b78e2ba4c688a2131dca0b\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=1731\"  data-item_title=\"First Night\"  data-item_date=\"2014-01-20T19:48:17-08:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.60\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A match whose flare is \u00a0closed from fear in the cupped hands of our uncanny holding, we make the walls flicker with our whispers. 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