Vienna\u2019s royal Hapsburg heritage is honored in its clean swept boulevards
\nStacked with birthday cake palaces and bronze fashioned fountains and
\nIf the horses hadn\u2019t been caste they\u2019d still prance
\nAs the H&M\u2019d Viennese do between their 9-5s and ballroom cafes<\/p>\n
Extending elegant pointing fingers to select
\nPastries glistening beneath glass in a cloud of cafe culture
\nDreamt up by the royal museum
\nof silver Hapsburg cutlery and kitchen ware
\nToo beautiful for eating<\/p>\n
Empress Elisabeth, Sisi<\/em>, if you please, leaves behind her jewels and hair pins The dimensions of her waist As the aspirations of a city to keep up appearances While a somber, paler tomb of marble books unread collects dust and complaints Just kitty-corner from the Turkish market vendors But Ottoman and Hapsburg legacy battles on the border lands Vienna\u2019s royal Hapsburg heritage is honored in its clean swept boulevards Stacked with birthday cake palaces and bronze fashioned fountains and If the horses hadn\u2019t been caste they\u2019d still prance As the H&M\u2019d Viennese do between their 9-5s and ballroom cafes Extending elegant pointing fingers to select Pastries glistening beneath glass in a cloud of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[80,81,87,83,27,82,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn velvet cushions plusher than the gowns she wore
\nOr her figure kept slender
\nBy daily regimens and gender-role diplomacy\u2014<\/p>\n
\nWent down in
\nhistory<\/p>\n
\nIs drawn to anything that shimmers
\nAnd memorializes its artists once disowned
\nFrom beneath the Secessionist\u2019s golden dome\u2014
\nVienna now curates the aesthetic of the Jewish beauty from Klimt\u2019s gilded paintings<\/p>\n
\nFor parking space wasted on history unclaimed\u2014
\nA peripheral responsibility
\nTo memorialize Austria\u2019s Holocaust<\/p>\n
\nWho call out across culture clash and social class
\nTo get a rise or a wince from the guest workers\u2019 hosts
\nWhile selling dolmeh<\/em> and making eyes at blonde daughters
\nWhose grandfathers no longer speak of wartime<\/p>\n
\nWhere Jewish heritage has been folded into the batter for a birthday cake to commemorate Viennese royalty, baked by brown hands adorned with bracelets of blue eyes
\nfor good luck, and a beauty ideal out of reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"