{"id":370,"date":"2021-06-07T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2021-10-28T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T10:29:46","slug":"elemental-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"elemental engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">all the warmth i have to offer\n\nis a bare light bulb beating\nwith an outdated coil a\nwhite hot heart of\nfrosted glass\na finite\nout-\npouring\nof shining sand\na crown of lumens\nstretched taut across\na minuscule fold of space\n\ni hold nothing\n\nback\n\nas wax-melted wings flare\noverhead beneath the\nradiant corona of\na titan's poly-\nchromatic\neye\nlifting\nme billow-\ning me heeling\n\nme this tiniest\n\nspeck of dust this\nruptured cell this hollow\norigin this sputtering flame\nthis ever inward wandering shore\nthis\n\n<em>flash!<\/em>\n\neclipsed\nby the brilliant metamorphosis\nof super-heated fusion inside\nan elemental engine\nof iron\nfueled by a\nstream of incan-\ndescent particles flung\noutward into the emptiness\nof atmospheric\nsegrega-\ntion\na\nkalei-\ndoscopic\nburst of static\ncharges reflecting\nan upsweep of molten\nsynapses that speak only\nin ablative prominences that\n\ngrant no umbral succor\n\nthat cry\n\nout unrecognized unheard in-\nside the echoing gravity\nwell of a spectral\ncurrent invisible\nto the follow-\ners of\nthe\nmain\nsequence\n\nfortified\n\nagainst\n\nthe\nvacuum\nof an inward\nfalling abyss by a\ncore of sympathetic dust\ndrawn twice over to bypass five\n\nhundred thousand pairs of eyes\n\nfast fading into darkness\nsundered all along a\nhorizontal axis\n\nstill\nreflecting\nthe electromagnetic\npulse\nof\na\n\nbare\n\nbulb swallowed by the in-\ndifferent tide of\nthe night\nsky\n\nall alone.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>June 7, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all the warmth i have to offer is a bare&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=370\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">elemental engine<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,2],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-6","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}