{"id":1196,"date":"2020-11-24T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:02:20","slug":"said-seedpod-sandboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Said Seedpod Sandboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>Two poems about the desert and its funny ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The desert remembers<br \/>\nThinks the mummy, head bowed in eternal agreement.<br \/>\nIts desiccated body has hardened against the heat<br \/>\nThe dry heat<br \/>\nthat turns all skin to leather.<br \/>\nHere, at the museum<br \/>\nit wonders about the Nile&#8217;s humid shores<br \/>\nFertile moisture, wet<br \/>\nIt would shudder if it could<br \/>\nThe mummy knows only<br \/>\nthe humid heat and<br \/>\nthe dry heat<br \/>\nJust as the latter keeps its flesh intact over millennia<br \/>\nThe former accelerates decay in all its forms.<br \/>\nIt would be funny, I think<br \/>\nto shove a pickled bog man<br \/>\nin the mummy&#8217;s sarcophagus.<br \/>\nSo many confused archaeologists!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I feel it underneath my body<br \/>\nhot and scratchy<br \/>\nagainst my skin.<br \/>\nMy hands<br \/>\nraspy and dry,<br \/>\nfingers devoid of feeling.<br \/>\nI drown in heat, I die of thirst.<br \/>\nI leave behind<br \/>\nan imprint on the sand.<br \/>\nI leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two poems about the desert and its funny ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,89,113],"tags":[118,116,119,117,115,114,17],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-english","category-poem","tag-archaeology","tag-desert","tag-literature","tag-mummy","tag-original-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}