Scots chose this place, its stone-filled glacial till
\nTo live, this cruel Glengarry, here where scabs
\nWould chew potatoes into rotten lumps
\nAnd grazing past the rocks that boiled up
\nEvery spring was cattle’s horse’s human’s lot.
\nSo here on this hard land where winter’s
\nWinds tear along the river, spill over rows of hills
\nLike tides to twitch on icy fields through
\nOrange and purple sunsets frozen hard as
\nHearts of stones until in spring the harvest
\nWas the rocks, boulders that boiled up
\nWith frost and lay atop the melting furrows
\nConfounding crows, returning duck and geese
\nLike prizes good only for fences hauled by fists
\nAnd fingers, hands, levers, steel and wood,
\nHorses, harness, wagon, sledge and boot
\nSettled there for ages, legacy of fields
\nClose cropped by cattle, stumbled over by
\nChildren, gradually overgrown by time
\nYet all that stays like monuments to
\nSubterranean seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scots chose this place, its stone-filled glacial till To live, this cruel Glengarry, here where scabs Would chew potatoes into rotten lumps And grazing past the rocks that boiled up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}