{"id":57,"date":"2004-08-12T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2004-08-12T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T16:18:35","slug":"ahniwa-from-olywa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/08\/12\/ahniwa-from-olywa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahniwa from OlyWa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well-situated. Killer house, well-located.
L’azur, a hint of purple.
Weaver of blue immobilities<\/em>.
I’ve rowed ‘neath the eyes of floating jails;
I’ve arrived home at last.<\/p>\n

Boulder Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Vic’s Boulder Cafe –<\/p>\n

Small, blonde foreign boy;
agé de dix ans.
Already mastered the european casual:
lifts his shirt to scratch an itch,
shows off a tan stomach, unabashed;
scratches, stretches: fingers to toes;
lets his shirt fall and
without so much as a glance around
performs a flawless crotch-grab.<\/em><\/p>\n

Later, as he speaks, his language
sounds northern: swedish or dutch.
His mother, a 6′2″ twig of a woman –
all limbs, a long neck to put
swans to shame, a face unmarred
by time and childbirth – stands
still, graceful, waiting for heaven
to chase her down.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Boulder & Alabaster –<\/p>\n

As long as I can,
I’ll breathe:
out: fog against the alabaster
of your skin, chalk yearning fragility;
in: the scent of our grinding together,
both the chisel,
both the clay.
We are our greatest masterpiece,
our magnificent opus:
you the sonata;
I the operatic laughter of the baritone
breaking against the orchestral pit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dig deep,
past the clay.
There is water here.
I promise I’ll hold on
just as long as I can.<\/em><\/p>\n

\/Boulder Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hiatus is back off, again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well-situated. Killer house, well-located. L’azur, a hint of purple. Weaver of blue immobilities. I’ve rowed ‘neath the eyes of floating jails; I’ve arrived home at last. Boulder Poems – Vic’s Boulder Cafe – Small, blonde foreign boy; agé de dix ans. Already mastered the european casual: lifts his shirt to scratch an itch, shows off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}