{"id":1760,"date":"2006-02-22T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/02\/22\/we-stayed-up-late-but-were-nourished-by-light-in-the-gloom\/"},"modified":"2006-02-22T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T10:38:00","slug":"we-stayed-up-late-but-were-nourished-by-light-in-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/02\/22\/we-stayed-up-late-but-were-nourished-by-light-in-the-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"we stayed up late but were nourished by light in the gloom."},"content":{"rendered":"

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)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is
\nmore silent than more than much more is or
\ntotal sun oceaning than any this
\ntear jumping from each most least eye of star<\/p>\n

and without was if minus and shall be
\nimmeasurable happenless unnow
\nshuts more than open could that every tree
\nor than all life more death begins to grow<\/p>\n

end’s ending then these dolls of joy and grief
\nthese recent memories of future dream
\nthese perhaps who have lost their shadows if
\nwhich did not do the losing spectres mime<\/p>\n

until out of merely not nothing comes
\nonly one snowflake(and we speak our names<\/i><\/p>\n

e.e. cummings<\/p>\n

Not ten minutes ago, I was woken up in the Waldorf Tiki Polynesian Lounge by unfamiliar staff members nervously peering over me. “How did you get in here? Where did you come from?” I answered them with an amazing string of surprised expletives and shook Kyle awake, at which point they sighed with relief. At first they hadn’t seen Kyle, because he’d curled up under all my wool hair, snuggled in like a bunny. All they’d seen were two kids, mysteriously asleep in their hotel, with clothing and miscellany scattered all over the ballroom floor.<\/p>\n

My life, on occasion, is surprisingly perfect.<\/p>\n

If, by some mystical chance, there were no rumours before, now they shall be flying on the wings of crows and angels, fluttering from mouth to mouth through that hotel as fire and laughter. <\/p>\n

Written Thursday, February 24th, 2005: “Take comfort that some of the fear is mutual. We are savage flowers, bleeding at the roots, utterly convincing.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is more silent than more than much more is or total sun oceaning than any this tear jumping from each most least eye of star and without was if minus and shall be immeasurable happenless unnow shuts more than open could that every tree or than all life … Continue reading “we stayed up late but were nourished by light in the gloom.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[596,155,381,574,597],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-call-it-love-well-cut-you","tag-flickr","tag-kyle","tag-the-hotel-ghost","tag-the-waldorf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}