{"id":104,"date":"2006-04-10T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/10\/soft-diamonds\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T02:24:47","slug":"soft-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/10\/soft-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving down county road 34<br \/>\nno music, no radio<br \/>\njust hoping for silence<br \/>\nfor peace and lucid driving<br \/>\nlate on a sharp cool night<!--more--><br \/>\nthe darkness beyond the<br \/>\nspread of the headlights<br \/>\nis pierced by pairs of oncoming<br \/>\nprobes just once in a while<br \/>\nthe rhythms of the road<br \/>\nthe soft thump bump strumming<br \/>\nof the asphalt and occasional<br \/>\nsquare panes of soft life looking<br \/>\nride in silence stars in the skyroof<br \/>\nthinking of the vivid faces<br \/>\nthirteen plays had brought<br \/>\ninto the interweave of<br \/>\nportals through which we admit<br \/>\nto being alive in earth residence.<\/p>\n<p>Haunting juxtapositions faces<br \/>\nwords light shadow movement<br \/>\ncoherent movement incoherent<br \/>\nmovement panic tongue speed<\/p>\n<p>control<\/p>\n<p>costume entrance soft patient<br \/>\nvoices applause hands speaking<br \/>\napproval of hands<br \/>\nand through it notes pages<br \/>\ncascades of notes.<\/p>\n<p>For two weeks,<br \/>\nscripts had been my reading<br \/>\nfor two days,<br \/>\nactors drew my breathing<br \/>\nfor three sessions I decided who was<br \/>\ngood, who was better: who was<br \/>\nsad, who was bitter; who was bad<br \/>\nwho would glitter on in the sky<br \/>\nsoft diamonds<br \/>\ndiamonds ride the deep<br \/>\ndark sky hovering overhead<br \/>\nlike drifting points in space<br \/>\nsoft sweet diamonds<br \/>\ndrifting over us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving down county road 34 no music, no radio just hoping for silence for peace and lucid driving late on a sharp cool night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-new-version","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}