{"id":15484,"date":"2019-08-01T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2019-08-01T01:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:29:58","slug":"let-it-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15484","title":{"rendered":"Let It Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>A poem by Vicente Huidobro, translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Simkins.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We now proceed to the unanimous moment<br \/>\nRevealed by the great curtain of the waves<br \/>\nFor the heart\u2019s formations and its progress<br \/>\nFor a thing of the vault and its interiors<br \/>\nFor the alchemy of departing one\u2019s opposite<br \/>\nIn binary traffic purple or shrouded<\/p>\n<p>The air stripped of its ocean<br \/>\nKnew what was coming<br \/>\nLike an anthill snaking through a jungle<br \/>\nTo the staggering noises of profaned sands<\/p>\n<p>The ocean stripped of its waves<br \/>\nCried against the rain<br \/>\nWhistled its coals into bloom<br \/>\nAnd surrendered everything to the primal origin of motion<\/p>\n<p>Five dead and twenty wounded<br \/>\nSaid the disaster and covered its eyes<br \/>\nThe unanimous moment followed the heart<br \/>\nPast the curtain liberated from the ocean<br \/>\nSomeone saw their home vanishing<br \/>\nAnd the sky dispersed into the air and its interiors<\/p>\n<p>The problem is simple<br \/>\nThe waves are divided<br \/>\nThe plane tips over the air sings<br \/>\nIn irrevocable fashion<br \/>\nThe volcano sighs its ancient dreams<br \/>\nOr the heart alone hails its health<br \/>\nThe waves shake hands and say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15487\">VICENTE HUIDOBRO &amp; JONATHAN SIMKINS<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Vicente Huidobro, translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Simkins. We now proceed to the unanimous moment Revealed by the great curtain of the waves For the heart\u2019s formations and its progress For a thing of the vault and its interiors For the alchemy of departing one\u2019s opposite In binary traffic purple or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-41K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}