{"id":1844,"date":"2006-05-24T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/05\/24\/heaven-feels-like-teeth\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T04:31:00","slug":"heaven-feels-like-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/05\/24\/heaven-feels-like-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"heaven feels like teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think part of me is disintegrating. Today came another anonymous letter. Reading it, a surge of sharp sorrow welled in my chest and threatened my eyes. With the last line, I felt on the verge of a revelation, as if this time, instead of the word Love, the letter would be signed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Treasured Jhayne,<\/p>\n

Once upon a yesterday, when waves
\nwhispered secrets that seashells never
\ntell, the man in the moon appeared behind
\nyou in the mirror. “I can tell you a
\nstory, of the girl who gave away a stone
\nheart and died without it,” he said.
\n“Sounds like a sad story,” you replied.
\n“All stories are sad,” he said. “They all
\nend, don’t they?” “What about happily-
\never-after?” you asked. The man in the moon
\nsmiled and touched the reflection of your
\nhair. “There’s happily, and there’s after,”
\nhe said, “but I am too much like the
\nmoon herself to promise
\nanything forever.”
\nYour reflection
\nwhispered, “Promise
\nme a story then.”<\/p>\n

X <\/p>\n

Love<\/p>\n

Previous letters: one & two<\/a>, three<\/a>, four & five & six<\/a>, seven<\/a>, eight<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

reminder: today, wednesday, may 25th, birthday all-you-can-eat fondue, $10, the capstone tea & fondue, (1118 Denman), 7:30 onward.<\/b><\/p>\n

Who are you, writer? I am divided. Your name would menace my loneliness, but shatter the mystery. Where are your stories going? Every ur-fable steps closer to me, who I am, the way I speak. My words are quoted through these like scattered rain on a lake. That last line, that last line is vividly mine<\/i>. The shape of those words slots onto my tongue every time I love someone. You mention my hair in such a way that I think you have touched it, that you have spoken with me, that I have held your hand and grasped it tightly. I was beginning to be afraid there would be no more letters, that the terrifying intimacy had ended, but you sent again a letter, one so awful and personal that it scares me and I’m glad. These are magic and magic is not meant to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think part of me is disintegrating. Today came another anonymous letter. Reading it, a surge of sharp sorrow welled in my chest and threatened my eyes. With the last line, I felt on the verge of a revelation, as if this time, instead of the word Love, the letter would be signed. Treasured Jhayne, … Continue reading “heaven feels like teeth”<\/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":[665,664,94,636,743,663,373],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anonymous","tag-anonymous-letters","tag-letters","tag-love-letters","tag-man-on-the-moon","tag-mystery","tag-mythology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}