{"id":3420,"date":"2013-11-29T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2013-11-29T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T09:31:40","slug":"the-architects-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"The Architect’s Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"6372dc4f9276afe055bcc012d7344fa9\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
The Architect’s Widow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, you only notice city windows
when thin light warms behind them, <\/p>\n

shadows gathering in white pleats
of curtains, foggy as tracing paper, <\/p>\n

their billows breaking the rigid frame.
This is what he meant by negative <\/p>\n

space: not the domes of the cathedral,
but the places you stand to see <\/p>\n

their familiar swell. Still, to watch you
startle at your reflection in the blisters <\/p>\n

of his windows, your shoulders sloped
\u2014 gentle curve of a wingback chair \u2014 <\/p>\n

the city\u2019s wind snared between girders,
facades of red brick, the body\u2019s tilt <\/p>\n

in a warp of glass, is to know something
of the way light distorts the thing it touches. <\/p>\n

Once, he told you that each bend in every
building has as many names as Rochester\u2019s <\/p>\n

phonebook: fanlight, oculus, loggia \u2014 yet,
no single word for the way rain darkens <\/p>\n

the shingles of the steeple or how the roof\u2019s
fixed line dovetails a blurred sky. <\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/h5>\n

Brandon Courtney<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}