{"id":1607,"date":"2008-04-01T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2008-04-01T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:10:58","slug":"300801-sunteeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1607","title":{"rendered":"30|08:01 Sunteeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny bits and pieces of something removed,<\/p>\n<div>Artifacts that hint at a larger thing, a greater device,<\/div>\n<div>A clockwork the size of the sun, perhaps,<\/div>\n<div>Its warmth and fire generated by eternally grinding gears,<\/div>\n<div>Shooting plasma plumes each time a tooth catches,<\/div>\n<div>Darkening sunbathers a million million miles away,<\/div>\n<div>A cancer machine crouching between clouds<\/div>\n<div>Growling and gnashing its comfortable jaws.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These are the pieces of it that fell to earth,<\/div>\n<div>Tumbling in the wake of David Bowie,<\/div>\n<div>Granting us hints at its true malevolent intent,<\/div>\n<div>My daughter scoops them up in the folds of her dress<\/div>\n<div>Snatches them up in tiny fists,\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Ignoring their heat and their smell,<\/div>\n<div>And rushes to my office to thrust them into my hands<\/div>\n<div>And insist that I string them into a necklace,<\/div>\n<div>Sunteeth jewelry to impress her friends at school,<\/div>\n<div>And I take them from her, one by one,<\/div>\n<div>Holding them up in the light streaming through my window,<\/div>\n<div>And they glint as they are reunited with their parent radiation,<\/div>\n<div>I swear they glow red and gold with trembling frustration,<\/div>\n<div>Yearning to gnaw through my fingers,\u00c2\u00a0the sky and space.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;ll make such pretty, hateful things.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny bits and pieces of something removed, Artifacts that hint at a larger thing, a greater device, A clockwork the size of the sun, perhaps, Its warmth and fire generated by eternally grinding gears, Shooting plasma plumes each time a tooth catches, Darkening sunbathers a million million miles away, A cancer machine crouching between clouds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-pV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}