{"id":171,"date":"2024-07-16T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:16:35","slug":"cold-summer-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/cold-summer-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Summer Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Cold-Summer-nights-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Undeniably, cold summer nights are the most beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when air turns into a cool well of calm and the sky&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even clearer than the stars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep my eyes open&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>just a little longer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>until I find the big bear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the only constellation I can trace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in this sparkling chaos. Little grains of sand&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>run through my fingers. Crushed by time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you stroke her back. I turn.&nbsp;&nbsp;On mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the ground, warm through my cotton dress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I close my eyes and wonder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if you see me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when I don\u2019t see myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to you two talking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I disappear in sparkling chaos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stars don\u2019t talk, they lie in solitude, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>watch us from afar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My eyes fill with dream and dew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;becoming visibly invisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I am too a star<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting to be found in a constellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting for somebody to share my beach towel with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undeniably, cold summer nights are the most beautiful when air turns into a cool well of calm and the sky&nbsp; even clearer than the stars.&nbsp; I keep my eyes open&nbsp; just a little longer until I find the big bear, the only constellation I can trace in this sparkling chaos. Little grains of sand&nbsp; run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claramascarenhas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}