{"id":66,"date":"2004-04-06T07:35:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T07:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-01-31T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:39:24","slug":"hymenaios-for-isabella-and-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2004\/04\/hymenaios-for-isabella-and-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymenaios <em>(for Isabella and Martin)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drank down our doubts, savoured the questions and accidents,<br \/>\nand what&#8217;s left is an empty cup to be filled, today.<br \/>\nAlmost the first miracle in the world, making wine<br \/>\nfor a day like this. We know, in this world, our arms<br \/>\ncannot reach forever; we remember Spanish-tinted dreams<br \/>\nspanning whole jungles separating us, heavy nights spent<br \/>\ndreaming one anothers&#8217; voices and tongues&#151;of a day<br \/>\nlike this. And we seal a pledge bounded by the inevitable,<br \/>\nbut look to the boundless; we would pledge it in every tongue<br \/>\nin the world, if we could. But though we cannot, behold<br \/>\nus anyway, dear friends. Today we become our love.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Notes: <i>Hymenaios<\/i> is the name of the Greek god of marriage, as well as the traditional song of the bridesmaids, but in general it&#8217;s also a general-purpose term for a &#8220;wedding song&#8221;. (The poem I wrote for my other sister&#8217;s wedding, an <i>epithalamion<\/i>, is apparently one specific type of <i>hymenaios<\/i> which was traditionally sung accompanying the bridal couple to the bedchamber. According to what I can find online, anyway. The hymenaios is the more all-encompassing category&#8230; but I&#8217;m not wholly sure.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drank down our doubts, savoured the questions and accidents, and what&#8217;s left is an empty cup to be filled, today. Almost the first miracle in the world, making wine for a day like this. We know, in this world, our arms cannot reach forever; we remember Spanish-tinted dreams spanning whole jungles separating us, heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epithalamia","category-poems-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-14","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}