{"id":453,"date":"2009-08-17T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-08-17T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T21:02:43","slug":"skewed-perspectives-by-andres-alfaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/skewed-perspectives-by-andres-alfaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Skewed Perspectives by Andr\u00e9s Alfaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/7\/20090818-windy.jpg' width='150' height='150' alt='https:\/\/piccies.flybywire.org.uk\/Weather\/2004\/20040707_Windy.jpg' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nThe harrowing winds of the morning<br \/>\nsweep through villages both<br \/>\nold and new&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Skewed Perspectives<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Perched on this clifftop<br \/>\nhigh above the verdant tropics<br \/>\nmy eyes sweep across<br \/>\nthe thousands of treetops<br \/>\nhome to thousands of lifeforms<br \/>\nwith thousands of agendas.<\/p>\n<p>The harrowing winds of the morning<br \/>\nsweep through villages both<br \/>\nold and new<br \/>\nwhere young lovers welcome<br \/>\nthe cool breeze<br \/>\nwhich lifts them off their feet<br \/>\nand into the euphoric waterfalls<br \/>\nof tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Winding past ancient trees <br \/>\nfull of mechanical inhabitants<br \/>\nthe winds sweep quickly<br \/>\ntoward rural bricklayers<br \/>\nwho are fruitlessly trying<br \/>\nto light a fire for the night&#8217;s<br \/>\nsupper.<br \/>\nIn the face of such rapid torrents,<br \/>\nthe metaphor of this reality<br \/>\nhaunts their dreams nightly.<\/p>\n<p>In the neighboring jungle<br \/>\na beast is slumbering<br \/>\nin the hollows of the land<br \/>\ncurled around a crystal dome<br \/>\nwhere beautiful and innocent butterflies<br \/>\nare trapped; protected,<br \/>\ndepending on your point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I watch intently as the breeze<br \/>\nslows nearly to a stop,<br \/>\ncreeping toward the tips<br \/>\nof the beast&#8217;s hair.<br \/>\nDespite myself I stiffen,<br \/>\nmuscles tensed<br \/>\nanticipating the coming awakening.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly<br \/>\nI&#8217;m caught off guard<br \/>\nby a double vision<br \/>\nof the beast disappearing<br \/>\nand a gentle fluttering breeze<br \/>\nsweeping across my neck<br \/>\nand I awaken,<br \/>\ncurled around a crystal dome<br \/>\nof tiny butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harrowing winds of the morning sweep through villages both old and new&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}