{"id":4215,"date":"2020-01-28T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:28:00","slug":"that-sliver-of-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/that-sliver-of-nothingness\/","title":{"rendered":"THAT SLIVER OF NOTHINGNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sin-t\u00edtulo-1-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sin-t\u00edtulo-1-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sin-t\u00edtulo-1-200x181.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Sin-t\u00edtulo-1.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">\u201cGHOST LOVER, \u201c PAINTING BY CAROLYN MARY KLEEFELD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">THAT SLIVER OF NOTHINGNESS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">O you, who are so distant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">yet so intimate in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">your silent possession of me\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Am I loving the unknown,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">rather than you?<br \/>\nIs it the distance we keep<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that breeds our intimacy?<br \/>\nO unknown one,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">why does your voice<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">hold such richness\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a richness that brightens<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">my waning heart?<br \/>\nO breath of life,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">am I searching for the stars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of a dream never to be?<br \/>\nIs there only this oblivion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">outside of death?<br \/>\nLurch me from the shadows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that leach my life.<br \/>\nTake me, embrace me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in that sliver of nothingness<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that for a moment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">can feel so complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">CAROLYN MARY KLEEFELD,<\/span><\/strong> USA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From: \u201cThe Divine Kiss,&#8221; Cross-Cultural Communications, USA &amp; The Seventh Quarry Press, Swansea, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; THAT SLIVER OF NOTHINGNESS O you, who are so distant, yet so intimate in your silent possession of me\u2014 Am I loving the unknown, rather than you? Is it the distance we keep that breeds our intimacy? O unknown one, why does your voice hold such richness\u2014 a richness that brightens my waning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4216,"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\/4215"}],"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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}