{"id":126,"date":"2006-04-25T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/25\/standing-by-the-fence\/"},"modified":"2006-04-26T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T02:27:08","slug":"standing-by-the-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/25\/standing-by-the-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"standing by the fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by the picket fence that runs down to the beach<br \/>\nif I look for him, he is not there<br \/>\nif I am he, I see the waves the sand<br \/>\nthe coarse beach grass rustling<br \/>\nin the offshore breeze<!--more--><br \/>\nsmell the salt feel the warm sand<br \/>\nfalling away underfoot<br \/>\nwonder what gifts the tide<br \/>\ndrew in overnight<\/p>\n<p>I know he stands by the fence<br \/>\nwaiting for me<br \/>\nwaiting for me to return<br \/>\nfrom the city<br \/>\nwaiting with calm focus<br \/>\nlooking out and up<br \/>\nSimplicity is such a complicated word<br \/>\na city word<br \/>\na word formed in the brain stems<br \/>\nof individuals who live with machines<br \/>\nand chipsets technology and clutter<br \/>\nin the city we seek simplicity<br \/>\nsimpli-city<br \/>\nlet us simplify<br \/>\nsimpli-fy<br \/>\nFYI: simplicity is simply citi<br \/>\nCITI is \u2014<\/p>\n<p>My child lives in a simple place<br \/>\nnear the shore<br \/>\nwaiting for me<br \/>\nwaiting for me to<br \/>\ngo down to the edge<br \/>\nand look across the water<br \/>\nand look up<br \/>\nand see the lights in the sky<\/p>\n<p>the lights that seem to be<br \/>\nstars and planets<br \/>\nbut really<br \/>\nin my child&#8217;s world<br \/>\nfrom that shore<br \/>\nthey are the welcoming voices<br \/>\nof what is so simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by the picket fence that runs down to the beach if I look for him, he is not there if I am he, I see the waves the sand the coarse beach grass rustling in the offshore breeze<\/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-126","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\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}