{"id":1403,"date":"2014-09-19T03:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","slug":"fourteen-death-dildoes-and-daffodils-act-iv-scene-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"fourteen (death, dildoes and daffodils, Act IV, Scene iv)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"D\"<\/a>ear Winter, come you further in, fingering the wormholes of Hermione’s heart?
\nSixteen times she and I have wintered in this hall, warmed each other’s beds.
\nShe has risen over me, ridden high as a conqueror on the waves of my flesh
\nAnd I, divided, have fallen eagerly beneath each victory cry.<\/p>\n

Autolycus, that finest of the mortal thieves, could not take her hand from mine.
\nBut you, Death, (Shall I speak your True Name, now that you have come so near?)
\nHave sown hard seeds in her breast. She swells and hardens in my hand;
\nShadows bloom on her skin and death’s cold snow rushes in at every breath.<\/p>\n

Bulbs wintering in the soil do not dream of the garden’s destruction;
\nThe seeds you planted in her breast will never bloom. Not on my watch.
\nShe has given enough already. My love is sharp and narrow as a sword;
\nHot as the bee’s barbed sting. I will cut your canker out.<\/p>\n

Enter Autolycus [singing]:
\n<\/em>When daffodils begin to peer,
\nWith heigh! The doxy over the dale,
\nWhy, then comes in the sweet o\u2019 the year;
\nFor the red blood reigns in the winter\u2019s pale.<\/p>\n

[Extract, work in progress: Death, dildoes and daffodils: a queer Winter’s tale<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ear Winter, come you further in, fingering the wormholes of Hermione’s heart? Sixteen times she and I have wintered in this hall, warmed each other’s beds. She has risen over me, ridden high as a conqueror on the waves of my flesh And I, divided, have fallen eagerly beneath each victory cry. Autolycus, that finest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"work-in-progress, and extract from the 'paper' I'll be delivering at the upcoming ANZSA\/Shakespeare conference: Death, dildoes and daffodils: a queer Winter's tale<\/a>","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[725,167,288],"tags":[722,727,676,669,767,766,671,728,670,709,668],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-200-words-200-days","category-on-writing","category-short-works","tag-200-days","tag-200-words","tag-anzsa","tag-autolycus","tag-cancer","tag-daffodils","tag-hermione","tag-microfiction","tag-paulina","tag-shakespeare","tag-the-winters-tale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LH1G-mD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/D.jpg?fit=236%2C213","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}