{"id":1474,"date":"2017-02-06T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T03:34:39","slug":"ml-boots-stretched-fireplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/1474","title":{"rendered":"To M.L., his boots stretched on the fireplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.\u201d –\u00a0<\/span><\/i>F. Fitzgerald,<\/span> The Great Gatsby<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"Image<\/p>\n

[To M.L., \u00a0his boots stretched on the fireplace]<\/p>\n

From the shadows we watch his face
\nin the blue half-light of the fire.
\nHear the draft beneath the door and
\nthe fire\u2019s dying roar.
\nThe hush.<\/p>\n

In this soup of lukewarm light,
\nTime loses its tick,
\nAnd the coal-flames simmer, simmer and leap,
\nHalfway indifferent, half complete.<\/p>\n

He is flesh with fleshly features.
\nStoke the fire,
\nThe flesh appears,
\nHe’s flesh with fleshly features
\nNow the ghostling fades away,<\/p>\n

Yet the eye aware and turned my way,
\nthe lips aware –
\nIf – the trembling “if”.
\nNonetheless. . .<\/p>\n

it would be agony and bliss.
\nIn the mean of catharsis,
\nCulmination and ruin
\nAt last in our bellies<\/p>\n

When the cracked sky falls about our ears;
\nThe ringing of pottery strikes the\u00a0pavement
\nForever time in time
\nFrozen<\/p>\n

But alas.
\nThe fire is dead
\nThe shutter bangs<\/p>\n

The wind whistles
\nWeak and cold<\/p>\n

I climb
\nto bed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.\u201d –\u00a0F. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby [To M.L., \u00a0his boots stretched on the fireplace] From the shadows we watch his face in the blue half-light of the fire. Hear the draft beneath the door and the fire\u2019s dying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,143,413,25,324,418,417,415,73,414,3,416,380],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-dontusehashtags","tag-beginnings","tag-burn","tag-evocative","tag-fire","tag-fitzgerald","tag-ghostly","tag-great-gatsby","tag-love","tag-love-from-afar","tag-poetry","tag-sentimental","tag-t-s-eliot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-nM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}