{"id":1660,"date":"2014-12-22T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2014-12-22T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T23:04:49","slug":"forty-one-grass-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"forty-one (grass widow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ferrio.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1661\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ferrio.jpg?resize=300%2C209\" alt=\"Vanitas by Roberto Ferri, 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ferrio.jpg?resize=300%2C209 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ferrio.jpg?w=960 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanitas by Roberto Ferri, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow me; this is where we were always headed. Into the darkness, into the forest. There is a stone in my pocket, but we have not come here to drown. In the distance, I\u00a0hear the wolves. They do not howl;\u00a0their feet pad lightly on the\u00a0snow.I loved you once, but this is worse. This walking\u00a0ahead into the night,\u00a0with you following behind. Your\u00a0silence is ravenous, nibbling at\u00a0my back. Have you nothing to say?<\/p>\n<p>Scraps of old songs lodge in my throat.\u00a0<em>Nobody knows when the snow will fall \/\u00a0smoke burns our winter prayers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I cut my teeth on you. But you were already wild. And now you float above the snow in silence. Your hollow bones, your bloodless body, naked and ugly and cruel. Leading you through this place is like tugging at the shackles\u00a0of a ruined\u00a0angel.<\/p>\n<p>Still nothing to say?<\/p>\n<p>I would hardly have expected anything more.<\/p>\n<p>Can you hear the grass widows calling? Their voices like wind passing through a field of wheat. They remember your promises. They remember your name.<\/p>\n<p>They will not forgive you when I bury your bones beneath them. But they will fall silent for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow me; this is where we were always headed. Into the darkness, into the forest. There is a stone in my pocket, but we have not come here to drown. In the distance, I\u00a0hear the wolves. They do not howl;\u00a0their feet pad lightly on the\u00a0snow.I loved you once, but this is worse. 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