{"id":4206,"date":"2020-01-17T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2020-01-17T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:01:56","slug":"i-love-to-touch-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/i-love-to-touch-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"I LOVE TO TOUCH LEAVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4207\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4207 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Captura-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Captura-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Captura-200x184.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Captura-140x130.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Captura.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting Martin Missfeldt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>I LOVE TO TOUCH LEAVES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More than books<br \/>\nMagazines<br \/>\nAnd newspapers,<br \/>\nMore than moving lips<br \/>\nRepeating the books<br \/>\nThe magazines<br \/>\nThe disasters,<br \/>\nI love to touch leaves<br \/>\nTo cover my face with leaves<br \/>\nAnd feel their freshness<br \/>\nSee the world<br \/>\nThrough their screened light<br \/>\nThrough their green,<br \/>\nAnd to listen to my silence<br \/>\nThat matures<br \/>\nAnd vibrates on my lips<br \/>\nAnd breaks down on my tongue,<br \/>\nAnd to listen to the earth<br \/>\nWhich breathes.<br \/>\nAnd the earth is my body<br \/>\nAnd I am the body<br \/>\nOf the earth.<br \/>\nClaribel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>CLARIBEL ALEGR\u00cdA<\/strong><\/span>, NICARAGUA (1924 \u2013 2018)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>ME GUSTA PALPAR HOJAS \/\/ M\u00e1s que libros\/Revistas\/Y peri\u00f3dicos\/M\u00e1s que m\u00f3viles labios\/Que repiten los libros,\/Las revistas,\/Los desastres,\/Me gusta palpar hojas\/Cubrirme el rostro de hojas\/Y sentir su frescura\/Ver el mundo\/A trav\u00e9s de su tamizada\/A trav\u00e9s de sus verdes\/Y escuchar mi silencio\/Que madura\/Y titila en mis labios\/Y se rompe en mi lengua\/Y escuchar a la tierra\/Que respira\/Y la tierra es mi cuerpo\/Y yo soy el cuerpo\/De la tierra\/Claribel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE TO TOUCH LEAVES &nbsp; More than books Magazines And newspapers, More than moving lips Repeating the books The magazines The disasters, I love to touch leaves To cover my face with leaves And feel their freshness See the world Through their screened light Through their green, And to listen to my silence That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4207,"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\/4206"}],"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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}