{"id":4184,"date":"2019-12-17T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:11:20","slug":"longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/longing\/","title":{"rendered":"LONGING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4185\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4185 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/608.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by Germain Droogenbroodt, Lake Como, Italy<\/dd>\n<dd><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">LONGING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nI want you like a fallen angel<br \/>\nwho reached his Heaven<br \/>\nand drank water from the crystal spring.<br \/>\nI want you like a flower<br \/>\nthat discovered the Castalian Spring*<br \/>\nin a Jewish desert.<br \/>\nI want you like a lake<br \/>\nthat yearns for its escape<br \/>\nto the untraveled ocean<br \/>\nin which to merge.<br \/>\nI wish I could become<br \/>\nlight wind upon your lips<br \/>\nto get the kiss of your water.<br \/>\nBut your pitcher is too small<br \/>\n\u2014how can it quench me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>CHRYSSA NIKOLAKIS,<\/strong> Greece 1977<br \/>\n<em>Translation Manolis \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>In Greek and Roman mythologies, Castalia was the daughter of the god-river Aqualoo or simply a girl from Delphi.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Apollo loved her, but she fled from him and dived into the fountain in Delphi at the foot of Mount Parnassus, which has<\/em><br \/>\n<em>since been called Castalia.1 Castalia could inspire the genius of poetry to those who drank its waters or listened to its soft<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sound. Its sacred water was also used to purify Delphic temples. Apollo consecrated Castalia to the Muses<\/em><br \/>\n<em>(Castaliae Musae).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGING I want you like a fallen angel who reached his Heaven and drank water from the crystal spring. I want you like a flower that discovered the Castalian Spring* in a Jewish desert. I want you like a lake that yearns for its escape to the untraveled ocean in which to merge. I wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4185,"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\/4184"}],"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=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}