{"id":120,"date":"2006-04-22T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T03:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/22\/again\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T04:35:08","slug":"again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/22\/again\/","title":{"rendered":"again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring soil was so dry<br \/>\nthe green that had shown up<br \/>\nin the few warm days<br \/>\nfor the April party<br \/>\nwas starting to pack up<!--more--><br \/>\nand go back<br \/>\ndust was blowing around<br \/>\nand winter&#8217;s dun leavings<br \/>\nlooked dead as bones<br \/>\npicked over by screeching ravens<br \/>\nthe possibility of flowers<br \/>\nhad become wretched plastic wrap<br \/>\ntwisting on dead stems<br \/>\nthat rattled against foundations<br \/>\nlike last year&#8217;s snake moults<\/p>\n<p>We were on the fourth or fifth<br \/>\nhand of an interminable<br \/>\npoker game when Alice shivered<br \/>\nwould somebody close the<br \/>\nwindow I think I&#8217;m getting a cold<br \/>\nI had just about wrestled the prop<br \/>\nout of the sash when I noticed the drops<br \/>\non the pane Hey it&#8217;s raining I said<br \/>\nthen close the window Alice said<br \/>\nNo I said it&#8217;s really raining<br \/>\nNo shit she said and they all<br \/>\ncame to the window to see<\/p>\n<p>As fast as the drops spattered down<br \/>\nthe green seemed to ignite<br \/>\nthrough the dun grass<br \/>\nonto the twigs then the branches<br \/>\neverywhere glowing green<br \/>\nas if spring decided to stay and<br \/>\nspread it all out for us<br \/>\nsummer would come<br \/>\nthe flowers would grow<br \/>\nI felt Alice inhale beside me<br \/>\nwe were forgiven<\/p>\n<p>again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring soil was so dry the green that had shown up in the few warm days for the April party was starting to pack 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-120","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\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}