{"id":7169,"date":"2026-08-05T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:05:21","slug":"833-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/833-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"833 | THE POND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7170 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Monet-Water-Lilies-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Monet-Water-Lilies-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Monet-Water-Lilies-200x192.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Monet-Water-Lilies-60x57.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Claude-Monet-Water-Lilies.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Claude Monet, Water Lilies<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE POND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My childhood is today a great pond<br \/>\nwhere I look at myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At its green lichen bottom,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">are stones covered by moss and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">fish of a rare and brilliant kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I dip my hands there<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and stir the water<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">to grasp a shadow,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">always elusive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The pond returns the sky to me, the clouds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sky and earth kiss in it\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">merge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I draw an image there, I dream it,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but I can\u2019t reach it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hanni Ossott<\/strong>, Venezuela, 1946-2002<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Monet, Water Lilies \u00a0 THE POND &nbsp; My childhood is today a great pond where I look at myself. At its green lichen bottom, are stones covered by moss and fish of a rare and brilliant kind. I dip my hands there and stir the water to grasp a shadow, always elusive. The pond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poemas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}