{"id":5177,"date":"2021-11-11T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:50:19","slug":"701-words-kamala-das-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/701-words-kamala-das-india\/","title":{"rendered":"701 | Words &#8211; Kamala Das, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5178 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Afbeelding-701-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"ithaca 701\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Afbeelding-701-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Afbeelding-701-200x249.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Afbeelding-701.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Drawing by Satish Gupta, India<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Words<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All round me are words, and words and words,<br \/>\nThey grow on me like leaves, they never<br \/>\nSeem to stop their slow growing<br \/>\nFrom within&#8230; But I tell myself, words<br \/>\nAre a nuisance, beware of them, they<br \/>\nCan be so many things, a<br \/>\nChasm where running feet must pause, to<br \/>\nLook, a sea with paralyzing waves,<br \/>\nA blast of burning air or,<br \/>\nA knife most willing to cut your best<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Friend&#8217;s throat&#8230; Words are a nuisance, but<br \/>\nThey grow on me like leaves on a tree,<br \/>\nThey never seem to stop their coming,<br \/>\nFrom a silence, somewhere deep within&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kamala Das<\/strong>, India 1934\u20132009<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing by Satish Gupta, India Words All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow growing From within&#8230; But I tell myself, words Are a nuisance, beware of them, they Can be so many things, a Chasm where running feet must pause, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177"}],"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=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}