{"id":6934,"date":"2025-11-28T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:12:58","slug":"816-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/816-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"816 | On the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6935 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Egon-Schiele-Austria-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Egon-Schiele-Austria-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Egon-Schiele-Austria-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Egon-Schiele-Austria.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Egon Schiele, Austria<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Poetry without borders 816 3 <strong>\u201cOn the Brink\u201d <\/strong>Stanley H. Barkan, USA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from \u201c<strong><em>The Faces of Time<\/em> &#8211; <em>Les visages du temps<\/em><\/strong><em>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Editor IWA Bogdani, Brussels-Pristina 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>On the Brink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the brink of fall,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the leaves decide their deciduous fate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Autumn comes like a red-haired witch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">riding the winds on a thick-strawed broomstick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The forests stun the eyes, visioning postcard vistas:<br \/>\nlayers of gold and orange, reds and purples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soon all the trees will shake off their colored complements,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and the black bony fingers will thrust themselves stark<br \/>\nagainst the whiteness of the brink of winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stanley H. Barkan<\/strong>, USA<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Egon Schiele, Austria \u00a0 Poetry without borders 816 3 \u201cOn the Brink\u201d Stanley H. Barkan, USA from \u201cThe Faces of Time &#8211; Les visages du temps\u201d Editor IWA Bogdani, Brussels-Pristina 2025 \u00a0On the Brink On the brink of fall, the leaves decide their deciduous fate. Autumn comes like a red-haired witch riding the winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934"}],"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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}