{"id":6359,"date":"2024-01-04T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:39:51","slug":"776-the-last-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/776-the-last-man\/","title":{"rendered":"776 | The last man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>With our best wishes for the New Year<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Germain Droogenbroodt and Stanley H. Barkan<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6360 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/karthik-cherry-800x600-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/karthik-cherry-800x600-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/karthik-cherry-800x600-1-200x309.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/karthik-cherry-800x600-1.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by Karthik Cherry, Hyderabad, India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Last Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\nafter Mary Shelley<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Comes barefoot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">over shining<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">turf over<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">clover and grass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">each shiny stem<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and leaf white<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with frost is it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">morning it is<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the first morning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">comes walking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">barefoot on grass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that bends and bends<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">under his feet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this is the rhythm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of prayer this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is how we always<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">knew it would be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">bare feet in the bare<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">orchard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">feet in ginnels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of the grass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">is this how<br \/>\nit will be walking<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">through the frost<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">under bare trees<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">when you are alone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Fiona Sampson<\/strong>, UK<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our best wishes for the New Year Germain Droogenbroodt and Stanley H. Barkan Painting by Karthik Cherry, Hyderabad, India &nbsp; The Last Man after Mary Shelley Comes barefoot over shining turf over clover and grass each shiny stem and leaf white with frost is it morning it is the first morning comes walking barefoot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6360,"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\/6359"}],"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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}