{"id":1129,"date":"2008-10-23T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2010-02-08T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:24:19","slug":"sometimes-i-wonder-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/10\/23\/sometimes-i-wonder-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"sometimes I wonder (revisited)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Sometimes I wonder<br \/>\nif she ever existed.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014found poem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder<br \/>\nif she ever existed.<br \/>\nOnly a smile now<br \/>\na gesture<br \/>\ncopper hair flashing<br \/>\nshe fades even in dreams<br \/>\nphases out<br \/>\nof memory the way she did<br \/>\nreturning to Toronto<br \/>\nwaving from the car<br \/>\nbut turning away tearful after<br \/>\nthe driveway like<br \/>\nPleiades glowing in the night sky<br \/>\nbringing hope and humour<br \/>\ntaking\u2014what?<br \/>\n\u2014from us<br \/>\nto that soft receding world<br \/>\nwhere sisters are strangers<br \/>\nand laughter just an echo<br \/>\nand galaxies are reflections<br \/>\nof loss<\/p>\n<p>That day she couldn&#8217;t make change<br \/>\ncoins dropped from her fingers<br \/>\nlike memories forgotten after sunset<br \/>\nwhen stars obsessed the sky<br \/>\nand she started smiling<br \/>\nat something whispered<br \/>\nfrom another destination<br \/>\njust past her shoulder<br \/>\na familiar gesture<br \/>\nfor some of us<\/p>\n<p>She could not comprehend<br \/>\nthe loudest of our arguments<br \/>\nfor delay<br \/>\nbut left impromptu<\/p>\n<p>Nebulae dim near the horizon<br \/>\nwe return to our darkening homes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a revision of a <a title=\"Original post\" href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/index.php?s=sometimes+I+wonder\" target=\"_blank\">poem<\/a> I posted in April 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[podcast]http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/podcast\/Sometimes_I_wonder.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder if she ever existed. \u2014found poem Sometimes I wonder if she ever existed. Only a smile now a gesture copper hair flashing she fades even in dreams phases out of memory the way she did returning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/10\/23\/sometimes-i-wonder-revisited\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[543,544,542,87,80,395,315,545],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-poem","category-poetry","tag-bassermann","tag-cameron","tag-christine","tag-death","tag-dying","tag-grief","tag-loss","tag-sorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","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=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}