{"id":140,"date":"2006-05-08T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/08\/inclined-plane\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T03:48:33","slug":"inclined-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/08\/inclined-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"inclined plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love lying on a roof<br \/>\nan angled roof<br \/>\nin the shadow of tall green maples<\/p>\n<p>Hear the shimmering leaves<br \/>\nsee the far blue sky<br \/>\nfall up to the soft clouds<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>clouds clouds<\/p>\n<p>studies in light and shade<br \/>\nintense whites intent greys<br \/>\ntall complex louring<br \/>\ndynamic whispy<br \/>\nshear-patterned by high winds<\/p>\n<p>feel the hard inclined grit<br \/>\nfeel the warm breeze<br \/>\ndrifting up the sun-softened shingles<br \/>\nsmell rendered tar<br \/>\nlive among the birds<br \/>\nlook over the far horizon to<br \/>\nOlympus<\/p>\n<p>Calm: I shall lie on my side<br \/>\nwhere is the edge?<br \/>\nis there a reality behind me?<br \/>\nif I roll back<br \/>\n(did I check?)<br \/>\nwill I fall like an<br \/>\nancient mariner off the edge<br \/>\nBe there monsters there?<\/p>\n<p>Dare I sleep so high above<br \/>\ngravity&#8217;s kind invitation?<\/p>\n<p>Sleep with elves<br \/>\nabove the eaves<br \/>\namong the leaves<br \/>\nnever to leave<\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between<br \/>\nlying at the edge of a precipice behind me<br \/>\nand lying in my bed?<br \/>\nonly that I believe it is a precipice.<\/p>\n<p>I love lying on a roof<br \/>\nan angled roof<br \/>\nin the shadow of tall green maples<\/p>\n<p>Hear the shimmering leaves<br \/>\nsee the far blue sky<br \/>\nfall up to the soft clouds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love lying on a roof an angled roof in the shadow of tall green maples Hear the shimmering leaves see the far blue sky fall up to the soft clouds<\/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-140","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\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}