{"id":1252,"date":"2011-04-08T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/08\/yusef-komunyakaa-nighttime-begins\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:42:37","slug":"yusef-komunyakaa-nighttime-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/08\/yusef-komunyakaa-nighttime-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusef Komunyakaa, “Nighttime Begins with a Line by Pablo Neruda”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So my body went on growing, by night,
\nwent on pleading & singing to the earth
\nI was born to be woven back into Love,
\nlet me see if I can’t sink my roots
\ndeeper into you, your minerals & water,
\nyour leaf rot & gold, your telling & un-
\ntelling of the oldest tales inscribed
\non wind-carved rocks, silt & grass,
\nyour songs & prayers, your oaths & myths,
\nyour nights & days in one unending lament,
\nyour luminous swarm of wet kisses
\n& stings, your spleen & mind,
\nyur outrageous forgetting & remembrance,
\nyour ghosts & rebirths, your thunderstones
\n& mushrooms, & your kind loss of memory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Chameleon Couch<\/i><\/a> is the thirteenth book of poems by Yusef Komunyakaa. It also includes “Blue Dementia<\/a>” (at the Academy of American Poets website), “Orpheus at the Second Gate of Hades<\/a>” (from The New Yorker<\/i>), and “Kindness<\/a>” and “Memory of the Murdered Professors at the Jagiellonian<\/a>” (both from Poetry<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my body went on growing, by night, went on pleading & singing to the earth I was born to be woven back into Love, let me see if I can’t sink my roots deeper into you, your minerals & water, your leaf rot & gold, your telling & un- telling of the oldest tales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}