{"id":307470,"date":"2025-11-17T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=307470"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:19:01","slug":"we-have-not-long-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/we-have-not-long-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Not Long to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We have not long to love.<br \/>\nLight does not stay.<br \/>\nThe tender things are those<br \/>\nwe fold away.<br \/>\nCoarse fabrics are the ones<br \/>\nfor common wear.<br \/>\nIn silence I have watched you<br \/>\ncomb your hair.<br \/>\nIntimate the silence,<br \/>\ndim and warm.<br \/>\nI could but did not, reach<br \/>\nto touch your arm.<br \/>\nI could, but do not, break<br \/>\nthat which is still.<br \/>\n(Almost the faintest whisper<br \/>\nwould be shrill.)<br \/>\nSo moments pass as though<br \/>\nthey wished to stay.<br \/>\nWe have not long to love.<br \/>\nA night. A day\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tennessee-Williams.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-307471 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Tennessee-Williams-e1763011008254.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>Playwright Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. After studying at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Washington University in St. Louis, he earned a BA from the University of Iowa in 1938. He then moved to New Orleans, one of two places where he was for the rest of his life to feel at home. The production of his first two Broadway plays, <\/em>The Glass Menagerie<em> (1945) and <\/em>A Streetcar Named Desire<em> (1947), secured his place, along with Eugene O\u2019Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of US\u2019 major playwrights of the 20th century.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have not long to love.<br \/>\nLight does not stay.<br \/>\nThe tender things are those<br \/>\nwe fold away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":307471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-307470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307472,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307470\/revisions\/307472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}