{"id":2928,"date":"2006-04-04T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/04\/04\/this-will-not-happen-again-until-2106\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T15:54:00","slug":"this-will-not-happen-again-until-2106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/04\/04\/this-will-not-happen-again-until-2106\/","title":{"rendered":"This will not happen again until 2106."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/123046065\/\" title=\"alone in my room but for you by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/39\/123046065_14d14b90e4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"alone in my room but for you\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In retrospect, the resonant frequency between my voice and yours, (between 300 Hz to 3400 Hz), is too many decibels for the tongue to remember. Instead I want to offer you a hand-woven microcircuit, a dark map of my hair from when your fingers were caught in the grain, pulling just enough to make me catch my breath. I want to give you a pattern of wires that precisely describes the dark streets that shudder in the corner of my mind as a memory in minature of when we were lovers. Because it&#8217;s enough to shut out the world, that hand-span recollection caught behind my eyes, trapped fluttering and warm. You mean Prometheus, a back-seat wedding of mythology and fact. It&#8217;s enough to separate me from my actions, from my current behaviour, and set my record function to pause, rewind, play back, <i>play.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>On Wednesday, tomorrow at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04\/05\/06.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>I catch myself dwelling on your skin, a shade pale like porcelain, on the colour of your absent eyes, how they crack my indifferent sky. The sparks of impressions you left, I wrap them around me to keep warm in the rain. They are blurring, becoming one thing. A cloak of constellations to quietly change my point of view into something fierce and gentle and forgiving. I feel honoured and privileged, a mirror lens of potential, young and unshaped. Lacking focus, but learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In retrospect, the resonant frequency between my voice and yours, (between 300 Hz to 3400 Hz), is too many decibels for the tongue to remember. Instead I want to offer you a hand-woven microcircuit, a dark map of my hair from when your fingers were caught in the grain, pulling just enough to make me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/04\/04\/this-will-not-happen-again-until-2106\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This will not happen again until 2106.&#8221;<\/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":[635,1509,10],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darling-thomas","tag-dates","tag-loveletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}