{"id":417,"date":"2005-05-11T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/05\/11\/terza\/"},"modified":"2012-11-15T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T21:20:47","slug":"terza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/05\/11\/terza\/","title":{"rendered":"Terza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aahhhh, I can’t do it! I did manage to write this within the constraints I imposed, but it ends up too incoherent to be a real story, so I’m sacrificing the basic premise in order to satisfy the extra ones. That’s weak. Ergo this isn’t going in Anacrusis<\/a>, but I’ll gladly dump it on you here, where apparently I have no standards.<\/p>\n

I no longer think it’s possible to write a terzanelle<\/a> in 101 words that’s still a good story, and I’m positive it can’t be done in meter. I’d love it if you proved me wrong.<\/p>\n

There’s little to Terza but her frame.
\nShe rolls. Nine sixes again:
\nat the Thousand-Year Club they’re all the same.<\/p>\n

They gambled away bad luck, when
\nthey thought they were wise.
\n(She rolls nine sixes again.)<\/p>\n

When age dulled their eyes,
\nthey’d gamble that away as well,
\nthey thought! They were wise.<\/p>\n

Terza chose to lose Hell
\n(she’d be different here);
\nthey gambled that away as well.<\/p>\n

Risk can’t be where fear
\nis not. Alone she’d be different; here
\nshe’s one more clone.<\/p>\n

There’s little to Terza, but her frame
\nis not alone at the Thousand-Year Club:
\nthey’re all the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aahhhh, I can’t do it! I did manage to write this within the constraints I imposed, but it ends up too incoherent to be a real story, so I’m sacrificing the basic premise in order to satisfy the extra ones. That’s weak. Ergo this isn’t going in Anacrusis, but I’ll gladly dump it on you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,69,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constrained-writing","category-exertion","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}