responsive-lightbox domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/sundre5/ducts.sundresspublications.com/content/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114<\/p>\n
Narcissus Sleeping<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Youth, greedy for beauty,<\/p>\n Squanders it carelessly.<\/p>\n Handsomeness slept in you, a kind of madness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why then, did the waters choose you,<\/p>\n Turning against you? Other young men<\/p>\n Look upon your eyes, and are afraid,<\/p>\n And are drawn, inexplicably, to offering themselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is it love, the curse<\/p>\n The feminine death?<\/p>\n What you wanted most was idiot stillness, your eyes to<\/p>\n Rest upon the surface where recognition and oblivion<\/p>\n Embrace.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the water and the image<\/p>\n It is your drowning<\/p>\n That washes up to me, the depths<\/p>\n You cannot give me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your flesh is chaste and cool, dried of all violence.<\/p>\n If it remembers the murderous longing, the pull<\/p>\n Of infatuation beyond understanding, nothing reveals it,<\/p>\n Not the smooth cheeks, as if unmarked by struggle,<\/p>\n Nor the lips, uncaring, inviting,<\/p>\n Or the eyes enclosing unshareable sleep, deep in forgetting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Because you are a victim and I love you,<\/p>\n Your enemies I take upon my affection and my wanting\u2014<\/p>\n Your enemies:\u00a0 the echoes, the sun, the springs<\/p>\n Unreachably flowering.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Madam Neurosis<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Madam Neurosis keeps house,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She rules the roost.<\/p>\n She demands payment<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In anxiety and insomnia,<\/p>\n Because you have already paid.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Madame Neurosis paces across<\/p>\n The room.\u00a0 Repetition\u2019s her religion<\/p>\n And she has made you acolyte.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No use waiting for her, she\u2019s gone nowhere,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And expects to be followed.<\/p>\n Come home and the silent apartment<\/p>\n Is full of Madame Neurosis\u2019 past,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Recollections you discarded<\/p>\n Which the fine lady digs up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Madame Neurosis doesn\u2019t need a family,<\/p>\n She has you.\u00a0 Oh, she\u2019s very fine, Madame is,<\/p>\n A workaholic and a hysterical stoic, no slack.\u00a0<\/p>\n Oh, she invents lacks and doesn\u2019t ask permission<\/p>\n To dance or to sulk.\u00a0 She buys your emotions in bulk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Television is her mirror and she hates what she sees.<\/p>\n To anticipate and precipitate Madame Neurosis consults<\/p>\n Childhood\u2014 that broken idol hungry for prayer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh, she lives in a castle, Madame Neurosis<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 mi castillo es tu castillo<\/em>.<\/p>\n False alarm fires, crystal balls and unread libraries.<\/p>\n You are lost in her castle.\u00a0 You are home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Youth, greedy for beauty, \/ Squanders it carelessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ducts.sundresspublications.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/strong>* \u00a0* \u00a0*<\/p>\n