{"id":756,"date":"2006-11-03T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/12-4-91-envy-of-a-hand-of-stone\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T21:32:45","slug":"12-4-91-envy-of-a-hand-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=756","title":{"rendered":"12-4-91 Envy Of A Hand Of Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=756\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Punta Del Este,Uruguay<\/p>\n<p>To reach,white fingers scream infantile<br \/>\nThe grasp of gray fingers mute<br \/>\nNot holding,waiting&#8230;stoic digits teach man<br \/>\nTo clench,a chance to hold nothing<br \/>\nRelax and so much passes through<\/p>\n<p>Light of a new day makes its rounds<br \/>\nBreath of the ancients speak words of desire<br \/>\nFine earth travels on phrases shouted<br \/>\nAccents of brine change the path of a journey<br \/>\nMan himself has come and gone<br \/>\nFrom the palm of others to places unknown<\/p>\n<p>And as I stand the water surrounds me<br \/>\nWanting to hold what I can not have<br \/>\nSeeing only what I share not with the others<br \/>\nWhite knuckles burn blue nails together<br \/>\nI wish to extort my hand open wide<br \/>\nIs an opposable thumb a license to use it?<\/p>\n<p>My eyes caress the concrete tips<br \/>\nI admire their will not to close and crush<br \/>\nThe ideal I&#8217;ve placed in the swirling sand;<\/p>\n<p>To reach and not to possess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To wait and not to expect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To touch and not to demand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To dream and never hang on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punta Del Este,Uruguay To reach,white fingers scream infantile The grasp of gray fingers mute Not holding,waiting&#8230;stoic digits teach man To clench,a chance to hold nothing Relax and so much passes through Light of a new day makes its rounds Breath of the ancients speak words of desire Fine earth travels on phrases shouted Accents of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}