{"id":11017,"date":"2013-10-20T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2013-10-20T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:03:17","slug":"poem-by-adonis-re-syria-i-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/poem-by-adonis-re-syria-i-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem by Adonis (re Syria, I take it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/adoniss_1_innerbig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11019 lazyload\" alt=\"adoniss_1_innerbig\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/adoniss_1_innerbig.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/adoniss_1_innerbig.jpg 460w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/adoniss_1_innerbig-300x180.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 460px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 460\/276;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The air, misshapen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The country\u2019s entrails,\u00a0 shredded by its children\u2019s fingernails,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">the crossroads robed in dust lit up by their wrinkles,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">arrayed in clothes woven from their steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Who will tell the crossroads: no,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">do not share your secrets with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We no longer expect the magic of going our separate ways there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">nor the bliss of reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">translated by Pierre Joris & Samira Hassan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The air, misshapen. The country\u2019s entrails,\u00a0 shredded by its children\u2019s fingernails, the crossroads robed in dust lit up by their wrinkles, arrayed in clothes woven from their steps. \u00a0 Who will tell&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,91,103],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-culture","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-adonis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}