{"id":488,"date":"2013-07-06T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:23:39","slug":"cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/cain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-013.jpg\" alt=\"Cain illustration\"\/><br \/>\n1.<br \/>\nThis is the sea tide of harmonies,<br \/>\na blind dog leads the seeing to standing pools &#8211;<br \/>\nsomewhere over the horizon of mists<br \/>\nthe lichen monstrosity<br \/>\nflayed for monstrous crimes<br \/>\nagainst inhumanity, teeters off the brink<br \/>\nof its uncanny world.<br \/>\nThe resigned faces<br \/>\nof the slaughter men &#8211;<br \/>\ntheir sweat is the stench of death.<br \/>\nAn opaque kiss<br \/>\nveiling the dark under a pallor of smiles.2.<br \/>\nOchre flames are caged<br \/>\nbehind walls of iron. Hungry for meat<br \/>\nthis carnivorous wight soldiers on &#8211; mindless,<br \/>\nyet possessing the intoxicant garments<br \/>\nof destruction;<br \/>\nmerciless pain, agonies that tear out the entrail-<br \/>\nshattered heart and the wisdom of blood,<br \/>\nfresh from the forest-wilderness<br \/>\nromantics could not touch.<br \/>\nHammers beat over the souls of the living,<br \/>\nwhat was once living is the brooding corpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. This is the sea tide of harmonies, a blind dog leads the seeing to standing pools &#8211; somewhere over the horizon of mists the lichen monstrosity flayed for monstrous crimes against inhumanity, teeters off the brink of its uncanny world. The resigned faces of the slaughter men &#8211; their sweat is the stench of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}