{"id":2407,"date":"2020-08-08T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaga.dk\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2020-08-08T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:59:04","slug":"the-thistleman-tidselmanden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"The Thistleman \/ Tidselmanden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-left:150px;padding-top:150px;padding-bottom:250px;font-family:Garamond, Serif;color:black;\">\n<p>when the trees begin to yawn<br \/>\nand prepare for winter\u2019s sleep<\/p>\n<p>the Thistleman grabs<br \/>\nhis long broad knife<br \/>\nmade from lovers\u2019 sighs<\/p>\n<p>and cuts away bits of clouds<br \/>\nto make pillows for each sleepy leaf<br \/>\nabout to fall<\/p>\n<p>the ghosts of bygone summers\u2019 bees<br \/>\nfold the pieces of cloud in vacant cobwebs<br \/>\nadding a tiny dewdrop to make sure<br \/>\nthe coming winter\u2019s dreams are sweet<\/p>\n<p>the Thistleman goes about his task<br \/>\nhumming a song he makes up as he goes<br \/>\nfrom hill to hill from menhir to menhir<br \/>\nfull of forgotten names<\/p>\n<p>before he himself sets off<br \/>\nto his bedroom<br \/>\nbeneath a timeless copper beech<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>n\u00e5r tr\u00e6erne begynder at gabe<br \/>\nog g\u00f8re sig klar til vinterens s\u00f8vn<\/p>\n<p>griber Tidselmand<br \/>\nsin lange kniv<br \/>\nlavet af elskendes sukke<\/p>\n<p>og sk\u00e6rer sm\u00e5 stykker af skyer<br \/>\nfor at lave puder til ethvert s\u00f8vnigt blad<br \/>\nder skal falde<\/p>\n<p>\u00e5nderne af hengangne somres bier<br \/>\nfolder skystykkerne ind i tomme edderkoppespind<br \/>\nog l\u00e6gger en lille dugdr\u00e5be i dem<br \/>\nfor at sikre at den kommende vinters dr\u00f8mme<br \/>\ner s\u00f8de<\/p>\n<p>Tidselmanden udf\u00f8rer sin gerning<br \/>\nmens han nynner en sang<br \/>\nhan finder p\u00e5 mens han g\u00e5r<br \/>\nfra h\u00f8j til h\u00f8j fra bautasten til bautasten<br \/>\nfulde af glemte navne<\/p>\n<p>f\u00f8r han selv begiver sig p\u00e5 vej<br \/>\ntil sit sovekammer under en tidl\u00f8s blodb\u00f8g<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when the trees begin to yawn and prepare for winter\u2019s sleep the Thistleman grabs his long broad knife made from lovers\u2019 sighs and cuts away bits of clouds to make pillows for each sleepy leaf about to fall the ghosts of bygone summers\u2019 bees fold the pieces of cloud in vacant cobwebs adding a tiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,50],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digt","category-poem","tag-digt","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megaga.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}