{"id":4525,"date":"2021-12-11T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2021-12-11T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:36:46","slug":"so-a-shudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/so-a-shudder\/","title":{"rendered":"So a Shudder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>So the shutter not stir and shame you,<br \/>\nI set the camera down and let<br \/>\nthe image burn, your flank a snowy<br \/>\nslope in a frame defined by shade.<\/p>\n<p>So a shudder not wake you as slanting<br \/>\nsun let shadow cast chill upon your flesh,<br \/>\nI softly swung the window shut.<\/p>\n<p>There on heights where silence<br \/>\nmust reign, where I must swear<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never been, I knew I&#8217;d leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Another poem from my middle baroque Berkeley period which, like <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/north-hatley-1978\/\">North Hatley 1978<\/a>, treats the motif of anticipated departure, foreboding of divorce &#8212; vespers, as opposed to alba.<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the shutter not stir and shame you, I set the camera down and let the image burn, your flank a snowy slope in a frame defined by shade. So a shudder not wake you as slanting sun let shadow cast chill upon your flesh, I softly swung the window shut. There on heights where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/so-a-shudder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So a Shudder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[44,25,8],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-berkeley","tag-erotic-poetry","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}