{"id":402,"date":"2021-04-14T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:44:48","slug":"her-hair-is-a-curtain-of-black","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/her-hair-is-a-curtain-of-black\/","title":{"rendered":"HER HAIR IS A CURTAIN OF BLACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">John Tustin<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her hair is a curtain of black<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Falling over her present and her past<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And her eyes so brown<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That they appear black<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except in the dark<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where they are most exquisite and delicate,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wet with her tears<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I would kiss away<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I lost my fingers in the inky curl<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of black hair so thick and mesmerizing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born to love her,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the blackness of my soul<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mixing with the blackness of her hair &#8211;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A waterfall of black falling<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my fingers, in my eyes<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I look into the darkness of her eyes<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lost in them but also finding<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lovely darkness<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of myself,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deeper and darker<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than the bottom of the ocean<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That hides heaven<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it reveals hell.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tustin &nbsp; Her hair is a curtain of black Falling over her present and her past &nbsp; And her eyes so brown That they appear black Except in the dark Where they are most exquisite and delicate, Wet with her tears &nbsp; That I would kiss away As I lost my fingers in the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/her-hair-is-a-curtain-of-black\/\">Continue Reading HER HAIR IS A CURTAIN OF BLACK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}