{"id":6341,"date":"2023-12-23T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2024-01-19T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:51:08","slug":"774-tryst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/774-tryst\/","title":{"rendered":"774 | Tryst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6342 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leon-Santiago-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leon-Santiago-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leon-Santiago-200x264.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Leon-Santiago.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by Leon Santiago, Puerto Rico-<\/em><em>USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tryst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She who accompanied me yesterday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At first call, after years of absence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She hugged me warmly in front of the guards<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then she withdrew her fingers and ran<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I followed her and she tied her short hair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On a high bridge and jumped<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My life jumped after her<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As a teardrop of a captain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Witnessing his ship vanishing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And he does nothing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Only stares at his severed legs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Abdul-Aziz Jassim<\/strong> \u2013 UAE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation from Arabic: Adel Khozam<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From \u201cLa lezom le\u201d 1995<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Leon Santiago, Puerto Rico-USA Tryst She who accompanied me yesterday At first call, after years of absence She hugged me warmly in front of the guards Then she withdrew her fingers and ran I followed her and she tied her short hair On a high bridge and jumped My life jumped after her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6342,"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\/6341"}],"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=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}