{"id":4181,"date":"2019-12-17T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:03:39","slug":"the-almost-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-almost-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ALMOST DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4182 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/607-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/607-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/607-600x358.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/607-200x119.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting by Tineke Storteboom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">THE ALMOST DEAD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nMy feet intertwined in the corpses of the words,<br \/>\nI crawled up<br \/>\nlike a beam of light onto the ruins.<br \/>\nMy belly gliding on the saliva of languages without echo,<br \/>\nI bathed<br \/>\nlike a memory in the black of my inkpot,<br \/>\nmy ears resonating with the whispering of the feathers<br \/>\nthat shivered in the wind,<br \/>\nlike blank sheets of paper<br \/>\nor as cerements . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>AMINA MEKAHLI,<\/strong> Algeria<br \/>\n<em>Unpublished poem. July 2019.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>La presque morte \/\/ Les pieds entrem\u00eal\u00e9s dans les cadavres des mots\/J&#8217;ai ramp\u00e9 \/\/ Comme un faisceau de<\/em><br \/>\n<em>lumi\u00e8re sur des ruines \/\/ Le ventre glissant sur la salive des langues sans \u00e9cho\/ J\u2019ai baign\u00e9 \/ Comme un<\/em><br \/>\n<em>souvenir dans le noir de mon encrier \/\/ Mes oreilles r\u00e9sonnant au chuchotement des plumes\/qui frissonnaient<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sous le vent,\/comme des feuilles blanches, ou comme des linceuls&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; THE ALMOST DEAD My feet intertwined in the corpses of the words, I crawled up like a beam of light onto the ruins. My belly gliding on the saliva of languages without echo, I bathed like a memory in the black of my inkpot, my ears resonating with the whispering of the feathers that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}