{"id":592,"date":"2016-11-12T11:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/a-brazen-moment"},"modified":"2019-08-10T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:20:24","slug":"a-brazen-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/11\/12\/a-brazen-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A brazen moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I see your shadow in the mirror, in the shapes between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constellation\">a<\/a> flock <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/heraclit\/\">of<\/a> birds, in the space <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcendental_apperception\">between<\/a> my eyes, my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream\">thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All that I know is that I can&#8217;t see you. I see your beauty but not your hand. Your elegance but not your feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How could I not love you, who crafts the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sfumato\">smudges<\/a> of cl<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/bible_cdo\/aid\/8173#v=14\">o<\/a>uds, at every hour, every vista, every <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idiolect\">biography<\/a>, history, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holography\">event<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/husserl\/#SinHorInt\">horizon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see your shadow in the mirror, in the shapes between a flock of birds, in the space between my eyes, my thoughts. All that I know is that I can&#8217;t see you. I see your beauty but not your hand. Your elegance but not your feet. 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