{"id":1600,"date":"2015-01-21T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/eroticbynature\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:55:55","slug":"purple-is-the-color-of-the-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/2015\/01\/21\/purple-is-the-color-of-the-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple is the color of the longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Purple is the color of the longing,<\/p>\n<p>tucked into the folds of pulpy organs<\/p>\n<p>soft and vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>A finger could pierce like a bullet<\/p>\n<p>this swollen pulse.<\/p>\n<p>An uncaring touch would tear to pieces<\/p>\n<p>the soft fiber of its nest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Defenseless it hides<\/p>\n<p>in the soft warm dark<\/p>\n<p>safe and alone,<\/p>\n<p>and dreams silently<\/p>\n<p>of the most gentle hands,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">hands that part the flesh with trembling care<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">inching open the egg,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">hands that breathe,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">warm and moist,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">attentive to the quietest heartbeats,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">slow patient hands that touch<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">with no shadow of demand,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">fingers\u00a0 that explore hinted textures<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">radiating wonder and discovery,<\/p>\n<p>bridges delicate enough to join<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">one time<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">under the noise of aching lives<\/p>\n<p>the being of one<\/p>\n<p>with the presence of another.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Purple is the color of the longing,<\/p>\n<p>tucked into the folds of pulpy organs<\/p>\n<p>soft and vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>A finger could pierce like a bullet<\/p>\n<p>this swollen pulse.<\/p>\n<p>An uncaring touch would tear to pieces<\/p>\n<p>the soft fiber of its nest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Defenseless it hides<\/p>\n<p>in the soft warm dark<\/p>\n<p>safe and alone,<\/p>\n<p>and dreams [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}