Return to me, for I never knew you.
Was it the wetness of the moment,
A foreign memory cast about me in a fine mist?
I know those images, casual sketches
Casually gestured at but imbued with love
In their creation\u2014
They worked on me. And yet, and yet
I didn’t think of them any more
Than I just imagined you there: Real, shimmering
With life, and there were tears (I could not tell why)
As the ache stabbed upward.
The ripples of you, carried in supple jars
Falling all around me, and I felt your smile
And laughing eyes like an iridescent curtain.
Why did you leave? Why was I kept from knowing you?
Oh, I am unworthy of your limpid heartbeat,
Of those in my charge. Yes\u2014
He has worthied us of each other, and yet, and yet
How? Promise you will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Return to me, for I never knew you. Was it the wetness of the moment,A foreign memory cast about me in a fine mist?I know those images, casual sketchesCasually gestured at but imbued with loveIn their creation\u2014They worked on me. And yet, and yetI didn’t think of them any moreThan I just imagined you there: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}