{"id":18418,"date":"2026-01-07T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:12:58","slug":"poem-there-is-a-panther-on-the-streets-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/poem-there-is-a-panther-on-the-streets-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: There is a Panther on the Streets of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There is a Panther on the Streets of Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>slinging hammocks of intent between each step,<br \/>\nhunting unbroken hearts beyond the senses.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows.<br \/>\nRumours breeze like leaves along Boulevard Saint Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Another takes a table at Le Caf\u00e9 Des Arts<br \/>\nindistinct in clouds of Vogue Bleu.<\/p>\n<p>No one.\u00a0 Not even the off-duty gendarme<br \/>\nwhose breath caught in the branches of his lungs<\/p>\n<p>when he glimpsed its paws\u2019 dry prints<br \/>\non Rue De Verneuil after rain.<\/p>\n<p>A physician at H\u00f4tel-Dieu<br \/>\ntreated a man who claimed the creature styled<\/p>\n<p>his hair with an upward rough-tongued lick;<br \/>\na couple on Pont De Carrousel who swore<\/p>\n<p>they were undone declaiming love,<br \/>\nas if their hearts were removed to make one.<\/p>\n<p>An ophthalmologist looked behind fiery eyes<br \/>\nthe day Notre-Dame succumbed<\/p>\n<p>to its blood against the sky,<br \/>\nand the dense fur of melanistic night.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/black-panther-lying-on-gray-rock-4137250\/\">Feature Image: Denishan Joseph<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a Panther on the Streets of Paris slinging hammocks of intent between each step, hunting unbroken hearts beyond the senses. No one knows. Rumours breeze like leaves along Boulevard Saint Germain. Another takes a table at Le Caf\u00e9 Des Arts indistinct in clouds of Vogue Bleu. No one.\u00a0 Not even the off-duty gendarme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1449,2397,4862,4863,4865,6975,6976,6986,6987,7320,7341,8708,8922,9363,9365],"class_list":["post-18418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-denishan-joseph","tag-jeremy-hughes","tag-jeremy-hughes-cassandra-voices","tag-jeremy-hughes-poet","tag-panther","tag-panther-on-the-streets-of-paris","tag-paris","tag-paris-panther","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-streets","tag-the","tag-there","tag-there-is-a-panther-on-the-streets-of-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}