{"id":417,"date":"2006-02-16T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2006-02-16T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:39:00","slug":"the-widows-revenge-by-katherinne-bardales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/the-widows-revenge-by-katherinne-bardales\/","title":{"rendered":"The Widow&#8217;s Revenge by Katherinne Bardales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got a CD in the mail. It was something I knew was coming. A CD filled with poetry, all the way from Chicago. My friend\/sister <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.e-poets.net\/BardalesK\/\">Kathy<\/a> turns out to be a very good poetry writer, and her reading the poetry makes it sound even better :-). Now at least I am a little less of a culture-barbarian. Thanks a LOT!!! More reasons for me to want to see her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/peru_profundo\/\">dance<\/a> also.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Widow&#8217;s Revenge<\/strong><br \/>\n&copy; <strong>Katherinne Bardales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ran away to the desert, a black shawl,<br \/>\nto mend my broken heart<br \/>\nwith fuschia papelillo petals,<br \/>\ngreen flesh of cactus<br \/>\nand sharp fox teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Many miles I walked, barefoot,<br \/>\ncutting open my soles with broken beer bottles<br \/>\nand burnt wood left from talking circles<br \/>\nlong ago.<\/p>\n<p>Layer by layer of skin I peeled off,<br \/>\nleaving trails of brown and pink in the sand.<br \/>\nWith my tanned skeleton I danced in the wind<br \/>\nand made love to the sand dunes.<\/p>\n<p>Then sun reached out with its upturned fingernails<br \/>\nand made my hair catch on fire.<br \/>\nMy head, a golden flame now, turned my memory to dust.<\/p>\n<p>I became speckles of copper and meteor<br \/>\nand the fishermen, who crossed the desert each day<br \/>\nto find virgin shores filled with silver eyes<br \/>\nsprinkled me on their fish like spice.<\/p>\n<p>I made them see oases.<br \/>\nI made them jump in sandpits, mad with love.<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got a CD in the mail. It was something I knew was coming. A CD filled with poetry, all the way from Chicago. My friend\/sister Kathy turns out to be a very good poetry writer, and her reading the poetry makes it sound even better :-). Now at least I am a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerika","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}